Olympus O-Product - ever heard of it??

[cassel]

 

[Roger Hicks]

Hipsters in Park Slope Brooklyn are lining up to buy them right now! 😉

Another oddball repackaging of probably the same camera is the Olympus Ecru.
These cost a fortune now. A few years ago you couldn't give them away.

There's also the Olympus LT-1, which doesn't cost too much more than the mju/Stylus.

Chris

Dear Chris,

$10-$180 is a fortune? That's the first figure I found on Google.

Cheers,

R.

 

[cassel]

Dear Chris,

$10-$180 is a fortune? That's the first figure I found on Google.

Cheers,

R.

I'm not as fond of the Ecru as a pretty object🙄 It crosses over into "too odd" even for me!

Price-wise, both the O-Product and the Ecru are all over the place...but I've seen very few under $200.
It seems to depend on country of origin, private party versus dealer and condition (makes sense) and what's "in the box".

Cheapest Ecru I see is like $180... plus one with current bid at $80

 

[Godfrey]

Cool little camera, an Olympus collectible. And not hideously pricey. 🙂 I remember seeing one when they came out—an early retro-steam-punk theme.

People belittle camera companies for producing stuff like this, but I enjoy it when they do. Cameras don't always have to be utterly serious things.

G

 

[cassel]

Out shooting this weekend- comparing to old 35mm f3.5 lenses with Tri-X

 

[cassel]

Happy to report that the little Oly O-Product passed the Tri-X Trial with flying (lack of) colors!😉

Here's some results:

 

[ChrisPlatt]

Dear Chris,

$10-$180 is a fortune? That's the first figure I found on Google.

Cheers,

R.

Checking eBay sold listings, on average the Ecru sells for FOUR TIMES
the price of the Olympus Stylus/mju I, the model on which it is based.

So yes Roger, that is indeed a fortune, in relative terms at least.

Chris

 

[cassel]

More results - this time the film is CineStill 800 - an odd and unpredictable film.

 

[raid]

Many years ago, such a camera fetched about $400, if my memory is correct. It was a "design marvel", or so we were told by Shutterbug Magazine or Popular Photography.

 

[Dante_Stella]

Fancy looks, but feature-wise it was easily the lowest tech boutique point-and-shoot ever, way below the mju series - a triplet lens with three position AF and 100/400 DX place it firmly in the range of cameras a mere stage upward of disposables.

Three zones of autofocus or three steps of autofocus?

It seems to me that there is a lot of confusion in specs and discussions about these terms (and I got caught up in this too when I was shopping point and shoot cameras). A 35mm f/3.5 camera cannot focus in just three steps, even when stopped down.

Most AF - like the Stylus mju-1 -has 100 or more steps from near to far (a cheapo Stylus 80 has hundreds) and some number of zones from 1-3 (3-zone usually picks out the closest subject - it's usually used in conjunction with the term "multibeam").

Dante

 

[cassel]

Summer shots from the O-Product: