Olympus OM77AF

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The Olympus OM77AF, or otherwise called the OM707, was one of the first auto focus SLR cameras. Olympus made it starting in 1986 in response to the first auto focus internal to camera motor driven and auto film drive camera SLR......which was the Minolta 7000. The Olympus took a different approach. There was a center focus auto program and another program with a separate switch to the back of the camera that would direct motor driven focus as you looked into the viewfinder and pressed the switch one way or the other. The auto focus was workable in the other program but just barely and wasn't a sure thing... particularly in less bright light circumstances. The camera came with two different grip options. One had a flash built in, the 300 series or one with no flash, the 100 series. The power for the camera, that also worked the flash was easy to find AAA batteries. There was a dedicated attachable flash that was able to fire correctly at any shutter speed....so it is written. The one built in fired at 100 shutter speed.

There were eight lenses made to work with this camera as auto focus. The camera I got came with two. You could use non auto focus Olympus lenses but with some drawbacks. There was no manual choice of aperture or shutter speed on the auto lenses nor could you manual focus by just turning a ring on the lens. The camera does show you in lighted figures what choices it makes though.

This was the Only SLR auto focus camera Olympus ever made and although it worked.... it was clearly not as good as the competition. On the other hand....if you are into collecting cameras it is one to have. And it's fun to shoot.