Digital Trends - To most consumers, Olympus is a Japanese company that makes a selection of well-regarded digital cameras, including recent Micro Four Thirds interchangeable lens cameras like the PEN E-PM1. The company also dabbles in a handful of other useful gizmos like digital voice recorders. However, Olympus get started way back in 1919 making medical gear: Originally, it made thermometers and microscopes, and today makes a huge range of endoscopic gear, along with ultrasound units, sanitization and disinfectant equipment, plus a selection of industrial products: scanners, flaw detectors, gauges, videoscopes, analyzers, and more. Olympus may not be a huge name in the consumer arena, but it is a huge name in other markets.
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