I've always wondered if Olympus walked away from the autofocus market
because they could not "shrink" the autofocus components to their nice
compact size. I've never seen any confirmation of that from Olympus. /jnm
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> Your memory may be correct, but I always thought that Super FP
> was Olympus'
> patent.?? It still doesn't add up that Oly got out due to lack of
> AF patents.
> There were Nikon, Canon, and Minolta all there with Olympus at
> the start and
> they didn't get out. And what about AF technology for the ZLRs?
> Isn't that
> the same AF patents that would have hindered their SLRs? Why did the ZLRs
> flourish? I think C.H. may be close or right on with his comment
> that if Oly
> can't get 250f a market, they don't even go in. But that STILL can't
> explain to my satisfaction why they got out so early instead of
> giving it a
> fight for that 25hare? Could you imagine what a technological coup it
> would have been early on for Olympus if they could have shrunk
> the AF SLR as
> successfully as they did the Manual focus? I suspect it was
> someone in charge
> that just decided for the company that they would not continue.
>
> George S.
>
> wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> << Olympus did not invent OTF
> exposure, or OTF flash control, but licensed it from Minolta. I
> think even
> the Super FP technology was invented by Minolta, but licensed by
> Olympus.
> Maybe Minolta got tired of Olympus one upping them on their own
> technology?
> >>
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