On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Hans van Veluwen wrote:
>
> : Khen, in which year did you join Olympus?
>
>> 1976 but fully in 1982
>
> Wow, truly amazing. You must really have been a briljant young guy to
> join Olympus R&D in Japan at the age of only 16 (how did you manage
> that, being a non-Japanese as your name indicates?) and even combine it
> with a study in Monash Uni (Mannix College) in Australia!
For quite a while now I've been doubting how much, if any, of what Khen is
telling us is true. There are just too many inconsitencies in what is
being told. The age thing being one of the most obvious ones. By his
own account on Sept 13 on this very list he said: "I'm only 46 (turned that
exactly a week ago :)) but my brain feels like it's been raked through with
steel comb....". That would indeed make him 16 years old in 1976. It's
rather hard to imaging a foreign teenager being involved in the development
of the OM system at its deepest levels.
Then just today he said: "We train new engineers on real projects but
essentially everyone starts off with some smaller camera projects first
before they can move up to more serious ones. I remember beginning with the
XA1 and XA2 almost after the 35-series finally ended." Let's see, the
XA-1 and XA-2 were introduced in 1980, with development taking at least
1-2 years, then he must have started in 1978 on it. I find it hard to
believe that Olympus would give an 18 year old with likely no education
any responsibility on the design team of an XA.
I could go on and on about all the technical inconsitencies in his stories
(I've pointed out a few already) but I'm convinced that most, if not all
of what he is saying is hogwash. I don't believe a word if it anymore.
At first it sounded good but now I think he's just a big hoax. I've been
involved in designing embedded systems products for over 20 years, I'm
very famliar with how these products are designed and some of what he
says just doesn't make sense. Three working E-3 prototypes just to choose
a sensor? Yeah, right.
Now that I've got that off my chest........
-mark
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