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Subject: [OM] Official Zuiko Story from Olympus
From: "Richard F. Man" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 01:28:32 -0700
http://www.olympus-esystem.com/dea/zuiko_story/index.html

It was in 1936 that the Takachiho corporation, forerunner of today's Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., introduced its first camera, the Semi-Olympus. The camera's lens was given the name Zuiko, a Japanese word that means "light of the gods." It was an auspicious name, chosen partially because the lens had been developed at the Mizuho Optical Research Laboratory (in Japanese, the first character of the name "Mizuho" can also be read "zui"), and partially because the corporate name, Takachiho, is a Japanese word that means "mountain of the gods." But more than the name, it was the extremely high quality of the lens that sparked comment at the time. And ever since, Zuiko lenses have been featured on succeeding generations of Olympus cameras. The Zuiko lenses for our OM SLR system 35mm film cameras, for example, were widely acclaimed for their remarkable resolving and imaging power, and became one of the world's most respected high- performance lens brands. Now, drawing on traditional optical and lens production technologies, as well as the most advanced digital technologies, the Zuiko brand has evolved. The result is the Zuiko Digital lens lineup, a series of dedicated high-performance lenses developed specifically for the next generation of digital SLR cameras.

// richard <http://www.imagecraft.com> <http://www.dragonsgate.net/mailman/listinfo>

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