An Olympus OM-1 in chrome with a 50mm Zuiko lens. Next to the Nikon F it looks almost dainty, and that was the whole idea: a full 35mm SLR shrunk to roughly half the weight of the professional system cameras of its day.
Yoshihisa Maitani's team unveiled it at Photokina in 1972 as the M-1, and the…
