Topic: Olympus RIP retrospective

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http://casualphotophile.com/2020/06/24/olympus-exits-camera-business-our-favorite-articles/

[Francois]

I too find it sad as I always wanted one of the MFT cameras. Just the fact that you can fit on them every lens under the sun was really an attractive proposition.
And not to mention that everything they made was top notch.
Somehow, I feel it's not entirely their fault that they had to pull-out of the market. When you consider that most people who buys cameras has the "mine's bigger" syndrome, as in bigger sensor, bigger lenses, greater burst rate and so on... it's not surprising that their small sophisticated offerings fell flat.

[Bryan]

I got the Olympus Pen F last year, mostly for scanning film.  I like the controls, much like a film camera, plus it kind of looks like a Leica.  I can do up to a 50MP scan with it but I mostly do 20MP.  I’ve been using Olympus cameras for decades now, both film and digital.  When I think about another company taking over a brand I can’t help but think about Bell & Howell.  Hopefully Olympus doesn’t become a bunch of cheap Or rebranded crap with their name on it. 

[John Robison]

Old time Olympus user here. My first was a original viewfinder Pen, used, in 1970. This was the first model with full manual control, no EE Pen’s for me. After that little gem I was hooked. Have owned multiple Olympus film cameras over the years but now have only a couple of vf Pen’s, a Pen F and FV and 7 of the original Pen Zuikos. Along with the half frame goes a couple of OM-1 bodies and a few of their lenses and a 35RC rounds out the list.

In my grumpy old man configuration I gave up on Olympus when they killed the OM system.

Of course, the whole dedicated camera world is in the tank, iphone now serves the needs of 90% of former camera purchasers.
The only bright spot in photography land the the upsurge in film use.

Ok, cranky old man configuration off.

[Jeff Warden]

 I’ve never owned an Olympus camera but this news does give me some nostalgia for 1980s TV commercials from Olympus, Minolta, Nikon, Pentax etc.  I was too young and broke to do anything about it but all of those commercials really did a number on me. 🙂📸

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https://youtu.be/i_Yo3FRPeQw

[Francois]

Maybe they should reopen shop doing film cameras 
There's sure to be a new market for that...

[tkmedia]

It was not a surprise after the decades long accounting practices to disguise their financial losses.