At 12:06 PM -0600 2/9/01, clintonr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>But I seriously doubt that Olympus licensed OTF from anyone - Maitani
>was using it in the OM-2 for over a decade before anyone else even tried
>it, and when they did it was in an entirely different manner than in the
>OM-2. And the progressive feed-back loop that's used to create Olympus'
>Super FP isn't used by anyone else - including Minolta! You're right -
>it doesn't make sense.
>
We discussed this on the list over a year ago. Someone found the patents.
They were to Minolta, but Minolta was not using them at the time. I'm
pretty sure that a current Minolta camera uses an equivalent to the Super
FP flash system.
Be seeing you.
Dirk Wright
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