The fraternal twins, Ricoh Mirai and Olympus AZ-4

Ricoh Mirai & Olympus AZ-4 Zoom Review – Fraternal Twins – By David Tellet

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Ah the 1980’s when cars and cameras still had edges and when certain camera companies had the courage to design and produce unusual cameras. Case in point are these fraternal twins: the Ricoh Mirai and the Olympus AZ-4 Zoom.

I think the design goal was quite clear: design a compact, high quality camera with a long (for the time) zoom and a large amount of automation. It was designed and marketed as a solution to carrying an SLR and a bag of lenses.