Yes, I remember at some big photo shoe in the late 70s how a MInolta
ep[ kept rubbing it in that THEY developed the TTL flash control, and
Olympus was only USING it in the OM-2 (with 310 flash).
John
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----- Original Message -----
From: John A. Prosper <prosper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] History & Futrue of Industrial Imaging
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Phillip Franklin wrote:
>
> |Generally speaking most photographic historians seem to give credit for
these most important
> |photographic milestones:
> |
> |Konica - Inventor of the 35mm SLR
> |Olympus - Inventor of OTF TTL Flash Control
> |Minolta - Inventor of the Auto Focusing Lens
>
> But Olympus DID NOT invent OTF TTL Flash Control: Minolta did.
> Olympus bought the rights to debut Minolta's invention in their
> OM-2n camera.
>
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