2023-04-04

Olympus film SLR camera eye-level finder design Part 2 !

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This is the second eye-level finder design of an Olympus manual focus film SLR camera!

This time we will look at the eye-level finder design of this film SLR camera released in 1973, comparing it with the ОМ10 released in 1979.

OLYMPUS OM-1 (Reference product)

This is a steel body film manual focus SLR camera released in 1973.

Front.

Comparison with ОМ10.　
You can see the difference in the width of the upper surface.
The font size of the manufacturer’s logo is slightly different.

OM-1

OM10

This is an angle from an angle.

Comparison with ОМ10.
There is a difference in the shape of the rear end of the side and the external strobe terminal.
This OM-1 does not have an external strobe bracket. You can see the round terminal.

OM-1

OM10

View from the side.

OM-1

OM-1

ОМ10, but the angle of each face is different from OM-1.

ОМ１０

ОМ１０

Top surface.

There is a difference in the shape of the apex and the surface going backward when viewed from the top.

OM-1

OM10

View from the back. You can see the difference in shape.
The viewfinder frame is almost the same shape.

OM-1

ОМ１０

In this article, we compare the old and new eye-level finders of Olympus film manual focus SLR cameras.

If you compare the OM-1 released in 1973 with the OM10 of 1979, you will see that they are completely different in design.
At the time of its release, the OM-1 was the smallest SLR camera in the world. The eye-level finder was also designed to be compact.

We will continue to introduce various eye-level finder designs in the future.

Thank you very much for reading this article!

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