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Re: [OM] Very sad day : Long live Maitani San

Subject: Re: [OM] Very sad day : Long live Maitani San
From: Johan Malmström <jmalmstrom@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:34:11 +0200
Sad news indeed.

/ Johan


2 aug 2009 kl. 12.16 skrev olympus-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

>
> Dear all,
>
> I've been shocked by the news that Maitani passed away.
> Just recently we had a lively discussion via EMail amongst members  
> of this forum, whether there is any chance to get Maitani's private  
> address and to be able to say a personal 'thank you' to him and/or  
> to get his autograph.
>
> I feel a deep inner relationship to the spirit he has brought to my  
> professional life as an engineer and to the long sightedness, as  
> well as  his personal ways to convince design teams and upper  
> management about his ideas. It proves to me that sometimes a certain  
> stubbornness together with a humouristic view is necessary to push a  
> new idea forward.
>
> I wish him all the best on his future path and am sure that he will  
> live forever in the memories of those who are using his system  
> throughout many many years to come.
>
> Only some days ago I unpacked a juvenile black OM1n together with a  
> 85mm Zuiko and - although I did not take a single shot yet - I felt  
> a deep inner joy about the design of one of his first amsterpieces  
> within the OM series.
>
> Time to buy another one....
>
> With best wishes
> The second Iwert on the list

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