Olympus OM-1
The Olympus OM-1 may be one of the best 35mm SLR cameras ever built and it is certainly one of our favorites. The camera is noteworthy for its small size and compact nature. The OM-1 is known for its innovative design made by the legendary camera designer Yoshihisa Maitani (of Olympus Pen F and XA fame). Maitani reconfigured where the shutter controls were typically located and placed them, instead, around the lens mount. This allowed the camera to be made more compact than any existing 35mm SLR at the time. Despite its small size, the OM-1 has a very large and lovely viewfinder. Spend a few moments holding one of these cameras and looking through its viewfinder and you will quickly start to fall in love with it.
Olympus complimented their new SLR camera with an excellent array of lenses. While not as varied or vast as the selection offered by Canon or Nikon, Olympus chose to forgo the dual approach of professional and consumer level lenses and instead just made all their lenses as good as they could. While OM-1 users may have fewer lenses to choose from, practically every one of those lenses is going to be of high quality.
Several modifications where made to the OM-1; the OM-1MD and OM-1N variants followed after the original. The MD version added the ability to attach a motor drive to the base of the camera and the OM-1N tweaked the film advance lever and added a flash ready light.
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