On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, John Austin wrote:
|Shawn Wright wrote:
|>To me, the F280 is an early example of technology which Olympus could have
|>lead the market with, had they not abandoned further development of the OM
|>system. If they could come up TTL/OTF metering in 1975, just imagine what
|they >could do today.
|
|If I'm not mistaken, I believe it was Minolta who invented and holds the
|patent on TTL/OTF flash. I think Olympus licensed the technology from them
|and was the first manufacturer to actually use it in a production camera
|that was sold to the public.
This is correct. Olympus was the first to employ Minolta's
technological baby in the OM2n.
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