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Early cameras; Semi Olympus 1936–1937 4.5×6 cm folder camera. The first camera released by Olympus.The body is a copy of the German Baldax large model and it is the same as the body of the prewar Semi Proud camera. Semi Olympus II October 1937 – March 1940 4.5×6 cm folder camera. Standard 1937 (never officially sold)
The Olympus OM-1 was a manually-operated 35 mm single-lens reflex camera forming the basis of the OM system in 1972. At first called the Olympus M-1, Leica disputed this designation and it was changed to OM-1. It was designed by a team led by Yoshihisa Maitani with a through-the-lens exposure meter controlling a needle visible in the viewfinder ...
There is not a very clear distinguishing line between camera producers and lens producers; many companies do both, or have done both at one time or another. Some camera manufacturers sell lenses made by others as their own, in an OEM arrangement. Some camera makers design lenses but outsource manufacture. Some lens makers have cameras made to ...
The latest Olympus camera is the Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark IV as of 20 August 2020. Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 60mm f/2.8 Macro Lens. At one time, Olympus cameras used only the proprietary xD-Picture Card for storage media. This storage solution is less popular than more common formats, and recent cameras can use SD and CompactFlash cards.
The Micro Four Thirds system (MFT) of still and video cameras and lenses was released by Olympus and Panasonic in 2008; lenses built for MFT use a flange focal distance of 19.25 mm, covering an image sensor with dimensions 17.3 × 13.0 mm (21.6 mm diagonal).
Despite no longer being a product of Olympus, the OM-1 still bears the Olympus wordmark on the front of its electronic viewfinder, tying the camera to Olympus' flagship E-M1 cameras. The camera's name is the same as the Olympus OM-1 , the first OM film SLR camera, and was released to coincide with that camera's 50th anniversary.
The Olympus OM-4 is an interchangeable-lens, 35 mm film, single lens reflex (SLR) camera; manufactured by Olympus Optical Co., Ltd. (today Olympus Corporation) in Japan, and sold as OM-4 from 1983 to 1987 and as OM-4Ti from 1986 to 2002.
Olympus retained ownership of the remaining 5%. [2] In 2021, OM Digital Solutions reported that all its products would be rebranded from Olympus to OM System. [5] The new name is a reference to the Olympus OM system. [citation needed]