There is a nice picture of OM101 on the web address:
http://www.olympus.co.jp/Special/CameraHistory/om101.html
Looks pretty neat actually. It seems that Olympus once tried
the philosophy of todays most AF cameras.
Omer Nezih GEREK
Electrical & Electronics Dept. email: gerek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Bilkent University, phone: 90-312-2664040 x 2480
06533 Bilkent, Ankara, fax : 90-312-2664307
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On 18 Jan 1998, Marco wrote:
> On Dom, 18 gen 1998 9:10, Terry and Tracey
> <mailto:foxcroft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >What are/were the 77 and 88? I've heard of them, but know nothing about
> them
> >
>
> In 1986 Olympus made an AFcamera, called 0M77 or 0M707 in Europe. The AF OM
> mount was/is fully compatible with hereafter called "conventional" OM
> lenses, but not vice versa, that is you cannot attach an AF OM lens on a
> conventional OM body. This seems more due to marketing strategies than to
> technical difficulties. With the OM77 Olympus made a small series of OM AF
> lenses, not called "Zuiko" anymore. Some of these lenses are identical,
> optically, to older "conventional" ones (f.i. the 35-70 3.5-4.5, the 50
> 1.8, the 24 2.8), other ones are entirely new. The camera features an
> incorporated winder-rewinder (single and sequence settings), faster
> vertical shutter, brighter fixed screen (than most 1-xx series), f/ info in
> the viewfinder (digital), memory of exposure reading, program mode, auto
> mode with conventional lenses, TTL flash reading (T-xx compatible), AF
> flash reading, infrared help to AF sensor, PF (a kind of motorized manual
> focusing called "power focus") mode, a power and flash grip (optional), a
> sort of handle with four AAA alkalines and a small retractile flash. On the
> lenses there are few goldn pins with the f/ and other (?) info. The AF
> lenses cannot be focused or diaphragmed manually, since they have no dial.
> DX setting only.
>
> Two years later Olympus gave birth to another new camera, called OM88 or
> OM101 in Europe. This camera, similar to the 77, featured the PF focusing
> mode only. Was accompanied by a smaller series of "PF" lenses, intended to
> be cheaper than AF. Normal lens was a 50 f/2! These PF lenses cannot be
> used on the 77 camera since they miss all the golden pins. Of course you
> can use the AF lenses on the 88, instead. No memory but a backlight button.
> The 88 camera featured a common OM TTL flash attachement and an optional
> manual adapter called (what else?) Manual Adapter 2. This adapter let you
> determine both f/ and times, since with AF or PF lenses you were in Program
> mode only. This camera was intended to be a cheaper semi-AF camera. For it
> was designed the T18 flash, that is a small flash TTL only. A normal auto
> flash would be useless if you cannot set the diaphragm!
>
> So you can mout and use conventional OM lenses on all OM cameras.
> You can mount and use all OM lenses on the OM88 camera.
> You can mount all lenses on the OM77 camera, but can use only the
> conventional and the AF ones.
> You cannot mount PF or AF lenses on conventional OM cameras.
>
> Last AF lens was the 50 f/2 macro (looks interesting?) introduced on 1991,
> afaik.
>
> So we have three 50 f/2: a prototype of an aftercalled 50 1.8, a PF lens
> and a macro AF lens.
>
> Marco
>
>
>
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