Olympus to stop making cameras

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53165293

Had an Olympus Trip when I was a child. Took much better photos than my neighbour’s Kodak Instamatic.

Loved my original XA. Proper camera 🙁

My first ‘proper’ camera was an OM1-N.
Should have kept it.
Photos of children (all 3 of them) when they were born and all through their formative years; great camera, great memories.

Still got my dad’s OM2-N, the bag and a selection of lenses.
Keep promising I’ll have a crack at film photography again one day.
I did buy an adaptor to fit the OM lenses to my canon DSLR though!
Sad to see a great brand die off though

Their latest m43 cameras were pretty good too. Shame.

All those corporate shenanigans can’t have helped, sounds like a crazy story.

I seem to remember only Fuji and Olympus went with XD memory for their cameras as well. That was another dead end.

Sad though that smartphones ate the market and in doing so the quality of pictures has reduced dramatically. Maybe they thought people cared.

The story behind Kodak and not seeing the threat of digital photography despite owning patents, doing the R&D etc. is similarly sad.

This is sad. My favourite ever camera is my Olympus tough tg4 🙁
No way you’re taking some of the photos that does with a smart phone.

Just picked up a pair of OM4Ti`s I might be behind the curve here but I could never afford them in the days when they were current models, the lenses are good and work on mirrorless bodies of any persuasion.

Olympus isn’t closing down, it’s selling the camera making division. According to the press release, the new company is expected to continue to make cameras and support existing products.
See https://www.dpreview.com/news/6607157941/olympus-in-agreement-to-sell-imaging-business-by-the-end-of-the-year?utm_source=self-desktop&utm_medium=marquee&utm_campaign=traffic_source

Such a shame to see this. My first camera as a kid was an Olympus XA2, which got me hooked on photography.

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Oh, I do hope they are continuing.  Have a hankering for an EM-5 to match the OM-1 that I still take for an occasional outing… lovely little camera.

I was very lucky to be bought an OM1n for my 17th birthday, first camera I’d had. No other object I’ve ever owned has changed my life so much. Within a year I’d decided to do a degree in photography and managed somehow to get on a Photography, Film and Television BA Hons course at The Polytechnic of Central London, now the University of Westminster. It was a bit of a different time back then, in 1984 there were only two actual photography degree courses in the country and the Media Studies degree course that also ran out of Riding House Street was the first one in the UK. I ended up working in high speed photography for the MOD, you cannot possibly imagine just how good it is to be paid for filming things being blown up, and that in a round about way led to what I do now. Although what I do now is sit at home and wonder if I’ll ever get back to work!

I’ve still got it along with another body I bought later and my lenses. I also have an XA as well which was a fantastic take anywhere camera. I bought that to replace a Trip which I think I gave to my sister, not sure what she did with that but very unlikely she still has it, must check with her though.

From all the medical congresses I’ve been at over the last 25 years it was always pretty obvious that Olympus’s real focus was on medical imaging.

I had an Olympus RC35, which was the next model up from a Trip, permanently hung off my shoulder while I was a student. I have actually just taken boxes and boxes of old photos and negs to the dump – I shudder to think how much I spent on developing before I got into developing my own black & white film.

I shudder to think how much I spent on developing before I got into developing my own black & white film.

I shudder to think how much I spent once I’d started my own developing and printing and had a darkroom! 😊

Well, not exactly bye bye – they sold off the camera division to an investment group.

Had an Olympus Trip when I was a child. Took much better photos than my neighbour’s Kodak Instamatic

Who do you think you are, David Bailey?

It is bye bye to the Olympus we all know and recognise.

It might end up like those new Nokia phones. Nokias but not as we know them

It is bye bye to the Olympus we all know and recognise.

It might end up like those new Nokia phones

Probably truer than you think – not long till computational photography replaces all those heavy lenses and other kit we love.

Typical – I’ve only had my new Olympus OMD-M10 for a few months ….

I just checked my trip and pen are working.

What do i need to develop some b&w film which i just bought…

You need a daylight developing tank, and a changing bag to get the film from canister to the reel.

After that you can develop with any developer including coffee!
a stop bath can be diluted white vineger
Proper fixer is needed
followed by a rinse and some cloths pegs for the film to dry on.

Top tip is to practice getting the film out of canister and onto reel with a spare wasted film as its not easy when you start.

Then scan your negs and print if you want to.

Who do you think you are, David Bailey?

Considering he was married to some of the most beautiful women in the world, then I’d id like to be.

Had an Olympus Trip when I was a child. Took much better photos than my neighbour’s Kodak Instamatic.

That wouldn’t be difficult.

Sad though that smartphones ate the market and in doing so the quality of pictures has reduced dramatically. Maybe they thought people cared.

The quality of photos hasn’t reduced dramatically, if anything it’s improved – it’s just that the market for compact pocket cameras has been cratered by the huge improvements made in smartphone cameras, Sony being heavily involved in the technology, and it’s Sony’s continued advances in DSLR and Mirrorless cameras that’s pulled the rug out from under Olympus, they just have no way to compete. Nikon and, in particular, Canon, are also struggling a bit as well.
I used to work in print pre-press, a photo from a modern smartphone is easily good enough to be reproduced at A5, and possibly even A4, I’ve certainly taken photos with my old iP6+ that would be good enough, it’s when photos need to be cropped, or used for much larger sized repro that the professional cameras come into their own, and in particular sports photography, where specialised lenses are required.