On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Rand E. Tomcala wrote:
|John,
|Re your "made for Olympus" statement. I have a perfectly functioning
|set of auto extention tubes, brand name "Venus" and that's just a
|sticker on the box. The thing is, I bought them just after I bought my
|first OM1 when it first came out. At that time Olympus didn't even
|offer "auto" extention tubes. About five years later I purchased an
|Olympus 36mm extention tube and it was still manual. I wonder why it
|took them so long to market an auto tube ?
Probably because it was possibly not trendy for major manufacturers to
offer their own auto tubes at the time? I know this was once true for
pro-level teleconverters. The third party TC offerings got so good
the major manufacturers were forced to produce top caliber stuff.
|P.S. Shawn, the usual three copies sent. And yes, bye the way, Thank
|You.
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|>John A. Prosper wrote:
|>
|> On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Greg Heier wrote:
|>
|> |I have a set of Oly extention tubes and was suprised to find that they
|> |weren't auto aperature. Are all the Olympus make tubes this way, or do I
|> |maybe have an early set?
|>
|> You probably have an early set or a set 'made for Olympus.'
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