On Tue, 9 Nov 1999 17:50:53 +0100, "Hans van Veluwen"
<mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>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
Whatta mistaka to maka.
In other words: Big vault, eh... fault.
I have also seen pictures or descriptions of other 'prototype-only'
lenses like the 50/2 standard lens and the 28-85 zoom lens which later
became available as AF only.
In Houten I have also bought a mysterious item. It was a so called F7P
macro cord, with on one end a plug fitting into the F280 socket and on
the other end a 2.5mm plug as for the early motor drive or winder. So
only two wires in that cable are used. Anyone knows what this is?
I haven't tried it, but it seems to be a release-only facility for the
flash - but for what purpose?
Frank van Lindert
Utrecht NL.
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