Wolfgang,
As I recall, the FTL was somewhat a bummer of a camera. It had a screw
mount lens, and I believe had a method to eliminate stop-down metering but
offered nothing over any camera on the market at that time. For some
reason, I don't think it had a good reputation as s solid, easy to repair
camera.
On top of that, it was virtually wiped out by the OM. Hardly anyone bought
it, and for good reason.
Brian Huber
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From: Wolfgang Theissen [SMTP:wtheissen@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 26, 1999 3:21 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Olympus FTL
Hello everybody,
today evening I saw in a store a nice looking Olympus FTL body. As I never
saw any before, I scanned the archives for an information about the FTL
system. But there was only very little information. What I found was that
this body has a special M42 mount (Is it compatible to any other M42
lenses?) with only six Zuikos available.
Does anybody have some more information?
Wolfgang
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