What I know is early than the IS series, the AF lenses for OM707 are Olympus
not Zuiko. Don't know why they have different name though.
C.H.Ling
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> All Olympus lenses were called zuiko until recently. AFAIK it was the IS
> series when they started calling them "Olympus lens".
> Does anyone know why Japanese camera manufacturers always invented a
> different name for the lenses? Is it as simple as a market belief that a
> company couldn't do both bodies and lenses well, or was it trying
> to emulate
> the German lens manufacturers inventing different names for bodies?
>
> Julian
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