Maitani Yoshihisa
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| Maitani Yoshihisa image by Romuald Swieconek (Image rights) |
The late Maitani Yoshihisa (米谷美久)[1] was a famous designer working for Olympus from the 1950s. He was born in 1933 and passed away July 30th 2009. He designed the original half frame Pen model, the Pen F half frame SLR, the OM 35mm SLR system and the XA ultra compact 35mm camera.
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| OM-1 by Howard Somerville (Image rights) | XA by Martin Taylor (Image rights) | PEN F by Vagn Sloth-Madsen (Image rights) |
Notes
- ↑ The name is given in the Japanese order, with family name followed by the given name.
Links
- Maitani's fan page (archived)
- Olympus advertising highlighting Maitani design begun c.1980 (Popular Photography Vol. 86, No. 1; page 31)
- Olympus' official Pen history (archived), XA history (archived) and OM history (archived) at Olympus Global
