Olympus / Hardware manufacturer

» Personal Loan No Credit Check, Online Economics » Hardware manufacturer » Topics begins with O » Olympus

Page modified: �roda, lipiec 13, 2011 06:17:22

Olympus is a Japanese manufacturer of optical devices. To its Produktportfolio similar as well as digital cameras belong like the Olympus E-1, those world-wide first camera in the Four Thirds standard. Besides Olympus offers rigid as well as flexible endoscopes.

For the industry as well as the biomedical range Olympus beside Zeiss, Leica and Nikon is a well-known offerer of high-quality stereomicroscopes and optical microscopes. The enterprise develops also laser Scanning microscopes. Increasingly Olympus in the molecular-biological and - medical research is established as an offerer of High content Screening systems. In addition the laser Scanning Cytometrie and the single Molecule Correlation spectroscopy (fluorescence correlation spectroscopy) belong. Beyond that Olympus offers digital dictating machines leading the market.

Similar Sucherkameras/history

Olympus produced with the Sucherkameras of the marks Trip and Pen (for half format) some the longest produced camera rows at all. With the well-known XA-row (XA, XA1, XA2, XA3, XA4) Olympus brought a compact, well arranged Sucherkamera with good technical characteristics and plastic housing on the market, which possessed an objective protection (protection slidegate valve) as one of the first modern series cameras.

Similar mirror reflex cameras

Olympus offered a pallet of particularly compact mirror reflex cameras with the COM camera system. Last and most modern model was the OM-4 Ti. Special characteristic was the highly developed lightning system, with which full synchronous lightnings with slot catch to 1/1000 s for the first time became possible. Beyond that the sophisticated macro lightning accessories are a special characteristic of the Olympus system.

After the end of the mirror reflex system cameras Olympus concentrated on Bridge cameras of the IS-series 10, 100 and 1000.

Worth mentioning also one of the first half format mirror reflex cameras is, the compact Pen F computer family with Pentaprismensucher.

Digital technique - Four Thirds standard

After longer Abstinenz within the range the mirror reflex photography Olympus developed a new standard for digital mirror reflex cameras, the Four Thirds standard in co-operation with Kodak.

All digital mirror reflex cameras as well as the current Zuiko Wechselobjektive of Olympus correspond to the defaults of the Four Thirds standard.

Digital mirror reflex models:

E-1
E-300
E-500
E-330

History

1919 - Olympus was created in Japan as Takachiho Seisakusho
1921 - Olympus for the first time as label name uses
1935 - Mizuho Optical Research center for the research of camera lenses opens
1949 - Company name changed in Olympus CO., Ltd.
1954 - Establishment of winter & Ibe in Hamburg
1963 - Olympus Europe GmbH in Hamburg based
1968 - Olympus corporation OF America based
1974 - Olympus Sverige OFF (Sweden) based
1975 - Olympus UK Ltd. (Great Britain) based
1975 - Research and development contract between winters & Ibe and Olympus corporation, Tokyo
1976 - Olympus Nederland B.V. (the Netherlands) based
1977 - Olympus Camera corporation in U.S.A. based
1978 - Keymed Ltd. follow the Olympus group
1979 - Olympus winters & Ibe GmbH and Son Optique photo S.A. follow the Olympus group
1979 - Fusion of winter & Ibe with Olympus
1982 - Olympus Austria total Ltd. (Austria) based
1985 - Olympus Switzerland AG based
1991 - Olympus C&S, Prague and Olympus Trgovacko Poduzece, Zagreb
1992 - Strategic alliance of Olympus and Ethicon Endo Surgery in M.I.S
1993 - Flemming GmbH follows the Olympus group. Olympus Danmark A/S and Olympus Norge A/S based
1994 - Olympus Diagnostice GmbH and Olympus software Europe GmbH based
1995 - Olympus Italia S.r.L based
1996 - Olympus Endo Repair Europe GmbH based
1997 - Olympus Polska frame Z.O.O and Olympus Hungary KFT. based