Just reading this article from the URL posted by Tim;
[QUOTE]Recalling the period in a recent interview, Maitani said, "About the
only thing we had going for us was that we had a dream. The problems we
faced seemed almost insurmountable at times. After all, the object was not
just to make an SLR that was smaller, lighter and quieter than the
competition; we also had to develop a complete range of lenses for it. But
when we were able to show people a prototype of the camera, they began to
believe in our dream, too. But it wasn't easy. Before creating something
that would satisfy the consumer public, ....." [END QUOTE]
The "dream" in this case one of particular engineering specification goals
and *excellence*. Excellence being one of the primary goals of the engineer.
This versus marketing - the primary concern of which is *sales* .....
[QUOTE] "(cont.) ..... we first had to come up with something that would
make people in the company sit up and take notice." Pausing briefly for a
sip of tea, he added with a wry smile, "In a way, that was the toughest part
of the assignment." [END QUOTE]
Indeed; Mr. Maitani understood the problems very well.
Cheers,
Lee
----Original Message Follows----
From: "Tim Chakravorty" <suchismit@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] Featured article on OM
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 23:32:44 -0700
For those of you who haven't seen it, I thought this article on the OM
system could be
of interest .
http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/magazine/pursuit/200208/html/f_article.html
-Tim
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