Olympus (and all camera manufacturers) were in stiff competition with
gray market imports. Olympus USA put the foil flag stickers on to
differentiate our new product from the gray market guys (who offered
absolutely no support to the consumer after the sale).
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Olympus OM Service since 1977
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Joel Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Ken Norton<ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Looking finger lickin' gorgeous, Enjoy!
>>>
>
>> And that's why God made silvernosed lenses!
>
> I brought the OM-1N in to work to show my friend Paul, who attended
> the late Zuikfest with me. After that I peeled off the passed sticker
> and the little flag banner with "USA" (evident in my photo, but rather
> blown out).
>
> Does anyone know what the occasion was, if any, for the little flag banner?
>
> Joel W.
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