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One of the oldest companies, Olympus has made a long and historic journey. Olympus digital cameras are used throughout the world today. Let's look at the glorious history of Olympus here.
Olympus began back in 1919 under the name of Takachiho Seisakusho. In fact, the first optical product the company has not had the camera, but a microscope! The name "Olympus" was introduced in 1921 as a brand foroptical products company.
It is accompanied by an interesting story about the name of Olympus. Has a deep deep meaning attached to it too. In Greek mythology, Mount Olympus, where gods dwell. And Takachiho the mountain where the gods live according to the Japanese texts. In fact, all names associated with Olympus cameras have a hidden meaning to them. For example, the first product made by Olympus for photographic75mm/F4.5 purposes was the Zuiko lens in 1936. This is an abbreviation coined from the name of Olympus Optical plant (Mizuho Kogaku-Kenkyujo) and also has a hidden meaning in China.
Introduced in the 30s, Olympus, many different types of cameras. Through world wars, the production suffered from time to time, until age 40. The Twins SLR camera was introduced in the 1950s and was immediately popular. In fact, developed hundreds of models based on this technology have beenby several manufacturers. But it was the Olympus Rolleiflex which set the standard for this type of cameras in the industry.
However, it was the Olympus PEN, which began in 1959/60 to life, established Olympus as a manufacturer of small cameras on the market. The PEN is light, small, innovative design 72 shots and was able to participate in a roll call! Olympus became increasingly popular and helped to win to keep the market. After that there is no turning backfor Olympus and was gaining strength.
As digital cameras are affected by the 80 and 90, the video camera and digital consumer cameras already on the market. However, there were very high quality and could only for web publishing or use of low-resolution prints. However, in the late 90s, had a very advanced technology and prices also fell, so now consumers for digital cameras and more. It was at this timein 1996, had established that the style of P & S cameras with a resolution from 810,000 pixels Olympus. slowly and steadily, with a 2-megapixel Olympus wine and a 3 megapixel camera until 2000. At that time, was one of the most important release of 2.11 megapixel Olympus C-211 model, which also had a built-in Polaroid printer.
Today, Olympus is one of the known manufacturers of digital cameras in theIndustry. Latest Olympus digital cameras are:
D-Series: Simple point-and-shoot cameras for beginners.
Series C: Digital cameras for advanced photographers.
Stylus: Stylish cameras in attractive colors and designs.
E-System Digital SLR: SLR digital cameras.
Recommended : Olympus FE-46
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