Yes dear Zuiks & Zuikettes, OM-lovers ;) all over the world,
Last Sunday at the camera show in Houten Olaf and I picked up some early
Olympus
documentation containing some interesting units that were under
development and
prototyped but never marketed.
The early print (January 1973) of the Manual For Zuiko Interchangeable Lenses
Group contains pictures and technical data of the 300mm/F6.3 and
400mm/F4.5 super
tele photo lenses, and some teasers of lenses that were 'under development':
500mm/F5.6, 800mm/F9 and 1200mm/F14.
The book The World of OM-Systems (2nd edition, 1977) contains a picture of a
prototype of the automatic Tilt/Shift bellows, together with a prototype
of the
135mm/F4.5 macro lens.
I've added the pictures and specifications of the two lenses to the lens photo
group and the picture of the bellows to the macrophoto group, at the bottom of
these pages.
Of course, it was never proven that Olympus cancelled these units. Like
Imagek's
EFS-1, the just *may* still be under development... ;) Meanwhile, it makes me
wonder what happened to the prototype units that were used for the
pictures. Say,
you don't think they are now resting in some vault in Utrecht, do you? ;)
H@nz
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