Well, it was the (in)famous "OM-X" as Maitani itself stated in an
interesting interview reported by the wonderful "Maitani & Olympus Fan
Pages" (see http://www.geocities.com/maitani_fan/om_interview_2.html).
As if that was not enough, that same site reports some oddities as the 85mm
f/1.4 prototype with "GRadient INdex" (GRIN :) special glass (that is a
glass whose refraction index is not constant but varies throughout its
volume, a solution currently only adopted by fiber optic cables) and the
50mm f/2 prototype which later evolved in the 40mm f/2.
Maitani itself pointed out that one of his dream was "constant f/2 zooms":
maybe was this dream that forced current Olympus optical engineers to
provide Digital Zuiko f/2 zooms.. Who knows!
My two cents...
Regards from Italy
Fabio
On 2/22/06, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> I noticed that olympus have launched an on-line museum of their cameras
> accesible via http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/corc/history/ Browsing the
> galleries I came across this attractive prototype which seems to have been
> evaluated prior to deciding on the OM-1 design:
> http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/corc/history/camera/image/pop06_mdn.jpg
>
> A very attractive looking camera, but with no detail as to size/weight (or
> even format).
>
> --
> Piers
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