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Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 02:46:14 -0700
From: "Keith Berry" <k.berry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] Olympus Ace E Rangefinder
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 10:44:40 +0100
Kar Yan Mak of disgraceful email address wrote:
>Hi, I would like to know if anyone here has any information about the
Olympus >Ace E rangefinder camera from the 60's. I recently acquired a
Tower 19 which >is said to be identical to the Olympus Ace E. Actually
it's made by Olympus >for Sear's Tower. I'm also looking for any scans or
pictures you may have. >I've searched all over the web and could hardly
find any information about >this camera, it doesn't look like it even
exists. I looked my old ''95-96 >McKeown's to know what it was...
Hans's new Olympus History page has the following mention but no picture:
"1961 - The Ace bodies were full frame 35mm rangefinder cameras with
exchangeable lenses. Four lenses were available:
35mm/F2.8, 45mm/F2.8, 80mm/F4 and 80mm/F5.6. They featured parallax
compensation, Copal SV shutter with speeds B, 1~1/500, M & X flash synchro.
The Ace didn't have a built-in meter, the Ace-E did. Accessories were
limited to lens shade, filters and everready case."
He also said in his post notifying the List of this new page: "regarding the
Olympus Ace: the Ace and Ace-E were Leica-M rangefinder clones from 1961
with four exchangeable lenses: 35mm/F2.8, 45mm/F2.8, 80mm/F4 and 80mm/F5.6.
Question for me however remains why this camera was only available in 1961.
Did Leica complain because the Ace used the characters A, c and e that could
also be found in lEiCA? ;)"
Regards,
Keith Berry
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