Olympus Ace

Olympus Ace image by Denny Narciso (Image rights)
Olympus Ace-E image by phollectormo (Image rights)

The Ace is a 35mm coupled-rangefinder camera, introduced by Olympus in 1958. It has interchangeable lenses. Its finder has projected frames and parallax correction. The combination of a leaf shutter and interchangeable lenses resulted in a limited range of lenses: just four were designed for the Ace:

• Standard Zuiko 45mm f:2.8
• Wide angle Zuiko 35mm f:2.8
• Tele Zuiko 80mm f:4
• Tele Zuiko 80mm f:5.6

Olympus Ace-E

Introduced in 1959, the Ace-E has the same body with the addition of an uncoupled selenium meter. Its production lasted until 1961. It was also sold as Sears Tower 19.

The Olympus Ace and Ace-E are normally found in chrome finish, but a black version was also made.

Sears Tower 19 image by oldglass (Image rights)

Links

• Ace, an article by John Foster at his website
• Ace E at olypedia.de