Good one! I was going to do something similar for my April 1 joke. Only
mine was an announcement of an apology to its loyal customers,
resumption of manual focus lenses and a digital version of the OM4T.
:-)
Winsor
Long Beach, California
USA
On Apr 1, 2004, at 4:35 AM, Richard F. Man wrote:
> I just heard from a salesman at Keeble and Shucat (one of the biggest
> photo
> dealers in Silicon Valley) that Olympus is coming out with a full OM
> adapter. It has an embedded microchip with all the data about various
> OM
> lens. It has 5 little pushbuttons and you specifying which lens you are
> attaching by entering a 5 digit code. When that is done, the adapter
> communicates with the E1 body and the E1 will be able to adjust the
> apertures (the adapter has some sort of arm mechanism to do that) and
> do
> any amount of compensation needed to make the lens operate to its
> fullest
> ability! Of course you still need to manually focus but this is really
> great news!
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