CAmeras like the 10, G, F, 77, 88 were not the brainchildren of Maitani.
He didn't believe these kind of cameras were "necessary", but they were
created out of necessaity by Olympus to compete with other brands.
An OM camera model that has the insignia letters or numbers in an
OUTLINE (like the 10 etc.) instead of SOLID block letters (1, 2, 3, 4,
etc) were created by camera design teams not necessarily with Maitanis
full involvement.
John
Marco Tomat wrote:
>
> Nikon has been doing *a lot* of different standards for screens and winders,
> and no one thinks it is not a whole and one system. Why we think this of the
> 2000 and 77 and 88?
>
> Marco
> ----------
> >Da: Dave Haynie <dhaynie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >A: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Oggetto: Re: [OM] 707,101 and 2000 and beyond (RANT)
> >Data: Ven, 26 feb 1999 4:57
> >
>
> >that Olympus was fairly aggressive in getting the features they wanted,
> >such as spot metering, as long as it dropped nicely enough into the
> >design. Where Olympus would certainly have done things differently, such
> >as in the shutter speed control (an OM camera with the speed control on
> >top deck? Gimme a break, this is sacrilige), lack of compatibility with
> >winders (something even the OM-10 does right), non-interchangable
> >focusing screen, These functions would have impacted quite a bit on the
> >existing camera design, so they were not done.
>
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