Gary Schloss wrote
> By Minolta?? I have never seen one -- maybe it was only sold in
> Japan and the rest of Asia.
I have an older (guess '95/96) issue of Populair Photography in which
Herman Keppler shows the Minolta prototype (based on the X-700
model). It never came to the market.
BTW, could the short live of the OM-F and its rivals be explained by
the big succes of Minolta's 'real' AF system? Has anyone worked the
timetable out?
Frank van Lindert suggested that Olympus made a mistake with
printing information about a 28-85mm lens in an OM-system brochure
of 1985. But I wonder whether the decision to bring this lens out in
AF was made AFTER the lens was designed, in order to have interesting
lenses on the market fast. Fast, because of the need to compete with
Minolta's AF. Again I wonder how the timetable was. And what time
does it take to develop a new (zoom) lens?
Any interesting theories around?
Frank Wijsmuller,
Zeist, Netherlands.
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