Olympus Pen F (1963) Medium format might have been de rigueur in the mid-1950s, but Olympus could see which way the wind was blowing. Read more: Review and some fantastic example images on Rangefinder Chronicles The classic Olympus Pen F (Pic: Ashley Pomeroy/Wikimedia Commons) At its centre was a bright and sharp Zuiko 75/2.8 lens, and a shutter which speeds as fast 1/400. The Flex – the first TLR Olympus produced – was no cheap-as-chips stopgap.
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The Olympus Flex, one of a raft of twin-lens reflex cameras to come from Japan in the 1950s, built on the reputation of the Olympus Six, a series of increasingly more impressive 6×6 folding cameras. Olympus Flex (1952) Oddly, for a camera maker renowned for its diminutive designs, one of Olympus’s early successes was a Rolleiflex-rivalling medium format SLR. As Olympus leaves the camera-making business, Kosmo Foto looks back at 10 classic film cameras which carried its name. Olympus’s classics – many of them made by the genius designer Yoshihasa Maitani – spanned half-frame cameras to no-nonsense rangefinders, SLRS to perfectly pocketable compact cameras. But the OM line certainly felt pretty professional, with superlative lenses and a dizzying amount of accessories. Much like Pentax, Olympus’s cameras were aimed at enthusiasts rather than professionals – no copy of the National Geographic was complete in the 1970s was complete without an ad for an Olympus OM-series SLR in it. Olympus didn’t make luxury rangefinders like Leica, nor did its cameras capture conflict like Nikon’s F-series SLRs. It is the end of 84 years of camera making at Olympus. While digital photographers will know the firm from the OM-D and Pen digital mirrorless models, Olympus’s pedigree is built on a line of classic cameras in the latter half of the 20 th Century.
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It had sold the camera division to Japan Industrial Partners (JIP), the same investment firm which bought Sony’s Vaio PC business in 2014. The decision was made public on Wednesday (24 June), as Olympus pivots towards its medical devices business. Olympus’s decision to sell off its photographic division brings to an end more than 80 years of camera making.
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