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Re: [OM] Why Oly is in a hole / screens & 280 flash

Subject: Re: [OM] Why Oly is in a hole / screens & 280 flash
From: "John A. Prosper" <prosper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 13:55:38 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, John Austin wrote:

|Shawn Wright wrote:
|>To me, the F280 is an early example of technology which Olympus could have
|>lead the market with, had they not abandoned further development of the OM
|>system. If they could come up TTL/OTF metering in 1975, just imagine what
|they >could do today.
|
|If I'm not mistaken, I believe it was Minolta who invented and holds the
|patent on TTL/OTF flash. I think Olympus licensed the technology from them
|and was the first manufacturer to actually use it in a production camera
|that was sold to the public.

This is correct.  Olympus was the first to employ Minolta's
technological baby in the OM2n.


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