Ah, the 330! A paradigm shifter indeed! For those who want a quick
reminder/overview:
http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Infinity_SuperZoom_330
Too bad the market is so resistant to change. The advent of digicams
*could* have ushered in a completely new way of looking at the design
of the picture making machines, but . . . ah, well.
Apparently an OM4Ti went up with one of the shuttles that crashed; I
had no idea.
ScottGee1
On 8/29/06, khen lim <castanet.xiosnetworks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks AG and Johann
>
> I will do my best for all of you. I'm trying to bring back parts of my life
> that have all too often been buried for all too long a time. I was for most
> parts with Olympus all the way to the OM-4Ti and also the V-1000 Vectis,
> which incidentally was the first commercially saleable digital camera,
> running on floppy diskettes. And yes, yes, yes, it was an Olympus. You can
> still buy spare parts for the V-1000 today!
> I was involved in some development projects that were then NDA-covered but
> they're pretty much open now. The AZ-330 SuperZoom was a favourite of mine
> for two reasons. Firstly it changed the course of camera design and only
> now, others are catching up. That's some twenty years later! Secondly I'm
> proud that the built-in dioptric control was the first in the world and I
> was the guy behind it but it came by accident!
> The most heartbreaking time I had at Olympus was watching the Space Shuttle
> explode in mid-air, perishing all within and the OM-4Ti. We had toiled on
> the OM-4Ti but that's another story....
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