The i for international from Olympus NY was simply an employee who had
missed his High School chemistry :) - and why would international for a
Japanese company mean Asia, Europe, in fact everywhere except the USA?
No I'm still sticking with Ti for titanium (T just to be different for US
re grey market - and why didn't they just stick another t on?).
No conspiracy theories here.......
David
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> From: Wijsmuller.VanderBel@xxxxxx
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] 4T, 4Ti
> Date: 27 October 1998 10:50
>
> In a presumed attempt to settle this thread R.S. Adams wrote:
>
> > I guess the plain old OM4T must be the "Tundra" model (used in
> > prehistoric times to photograph mastodons), and then was switched to Ti
> > when titanium was discovered! (Tongue firmly in cheek! :-) )
>
> Nice. The OM-1/2n must be the models for 'nowhere'.
>
> > Actually, got an email response from Olympus in NY and they said the
> > "i," is indeed for "international" and not for the i in the symbol Ti =
> > Titanium! Although, we know that the symbol "is" Ti, no disputing
that,
> > of course, just that Oly didn't use it in that sense.
>
> Interesting. So not mentioning the 'i' must mean 'national' then? ;-)
> Living in Europe I can't help to recognize the 'united states = the
> world' syndrome, in which the 'T' standing for 'national' sure makes
> sense ;-)
>
> If I'm correct the OM-4Ti is the name in Japan too...? If your
> explaination is right then please explain why they sell the
> 'international' version in their own country.
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> Frank Wijsmuller.
>
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