> I don't know much about this old beauty, except that it has always taken
> wonderful pictures. I understand the FTL was marketed for only about a
> year or so before the introduction of the OM System. Some have said it
> may have been made by Minolta for Olympus. I wasn't aware Minolta was
> into screw mount cameras, but it's possible.
I cannot guarantee this is true, but:
I hear that a project team completely independent from the OM team
designed this camera. And therefore this camera has a corrosion
free pentaprism design, unlike the OM bodies. Someone said it looks
like an incomplete copy of Pentax SP.
kazuya matsumoto
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