Maitani-san was still around and active as recently as a couple years
ago. The eSIF article refers to him as an "advisor of Olympus today".
Japanese companies seem to be very good about honoring past
achievements. When I worked for Seiko Epson many years ago I met the
guy who developed the quartz technology that revolutionized the
timekeeping industry. Embarrased to say I can't recall his name. He
clearly commanded a lot of respect from the younger engineers. Nice
chap who was a real Karaoke-party nut.
Keppler wrote a nice article (March 2002) about a reunion he had at
Mt. Fuji with Maitani and a couple other photo-visionaries. As I
recall, Maitani-san showed up with a prototype camera. NO, not an OM5
- a digital video camera - ever the innovator!
BTW, he was born in 1933 so he's still a relatively young guy. At
least I hope so because that's what I keep telling myself about that
age range . . . ahem. ;o)
ScottGee1
On 5/3/05, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is Maitani still alive? Still consulting for the company? Surely there
> are (possibly retired) Oly people who do know the answer. Has Oly ever
> had a product museum?
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> ScottGee1 wrote:
>
> > Please forgive my ignorance on this, but could the questions about
> > this lens be posed to someone at Olympus who might actually know The
> > Answers?
> >
> > Or have they completely washed their hands of OM and told the
> > secretary to disavow any knowledge of their actions? ;o)
> >
> > I called the Oly support line a while back, asked an OM question and
> > was directed to the voicemail of someone who never called back.
> >
> > Inquiring minds want to know . . .
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