Surprise: Japan Camera Foundation selects the OM-1 as camera of the year

The “Historical Camera Judging Committee” sponsored by the Japan Camera Foundation has selected the OM-1 as “Historical Camera” of 2022.

■Historical camera judges (in alphabetical order, titles omitted)
Kei Tanino (Director/Chairman of the Japan Camera Museum), Yasunori Ichikawa (Photography technology researcher), Kazunori Kawata (Camera critic/Photographer), Hideto Sasaki (Representative of PCT LLC), Makoto Suzuki (Deputy Editor-in-Chief of “Digital Camera Watch”), Kenji Toyoda (Camera Critic), Fumio Nakamura (Camera Critic), Yoshinori Marui (Photographer / Professor at Tokyo Polytechnic University), Kazuo Yamamoto (Japan Camera Foundation)

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