And from Dante Stella's site:
<http://www.dantestella.com/technical/message.html>
"Olympus Company, leading camera manufacturer of the nation, has alone turned
out more than 2 million Pen cameras already. Moreover, it would not be too much
to say that its depicting power which easily allows enlargement to quarter size
and its inexpensive film cost have fascinated all camera fans. And the advent
of the half size was quite timely. The day is approaching, yes, close at hand
when 18x24mm will become the standard size for negative film."
Olympus Pen F promotional literature, 1964
We should all be relieved that the Olympus Pen cameras can make sharp 4.5x6mm
prints! This prediction would have come true had APS film caught on.
At 05:23 AM 4/3/2004, you wrote:
>And, on the E-1, from the same source
>
>
>'It seems to me that history is about to repeat itself. Olympus was the
>champion of the failed but elegant little half-frame format of the 1960's,
>and now appears to be heading down the same path. A shame really, because
>the E-1 is a very fine camera in many ways, and deserves better than to be
>built around a format that, like half-frame, may turn out to be just a
>footnote in the history of photography'
>
>Regards
>Ian
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