As a kid, I used tip money from my paper route to buy an Argus C-3. It was fine for the time and a 12 year old learning photography, but other makes quickly surpassed it's capabilities. It was a range finder camera, had no metering system, and really no system of interchangeable lenses. At a PX in Viet Nam, I bought a Mamiya/Sekor 1000DTL and used it for several years. I was satisfied with it but moved on to a Rolleiflex SL 35M soon after they came out. Rollei had such a great name and promised to develop a whole system for it's 35mm line, but they never really delivered on that promise. The camera also had reliability issues. I had to have it repaired 3 or 4 times. While working as a river guide in Grand Canyon in the late 70's, we took the head editors of National Geographic on an 18 day trip. They all had Olympus cameras. After playing with theirs, I was sold. Olympus used Zeiss lenses, and was pretty much the smallest 35mm SLR on the market. For someone like me who spent lots of time carrying camera gear deep into the backcountry, the size and weight of the OM system made it perfect for me. On top of that, the quality of the camera, lenses, and subsequently the photos, was excellent. I started with the OM-1, moved on to the OM-2, OM-2n, OM-4, and OM-4T as each new generation came out, always being pleased with Olympus's ingenuity, quality, and advancements. I'm fairly sure they invented the concept of TTL flashes, although they called it OTF (off the film). I would still be using Olympus, except that when they made the move to digital, none of their old film lenses worked with their digital bodies. That upset me and I subsequently moved on to Canon when they came out with a reasonably priced full frame digital, the 5D. However, I really miss the compactness and portability of my old Olympus system.

It looked identical to the 2.8 Rollieflex twin lens. They made so few that it may have been The camera used in Rollie's ads. If memory serves me, it had a 55mm f2.8 Schneider Distagon/Biogon? lens, giving the camera a mildly wide 63 degree +/- field of view. A beautifully constructed box. Great for weddings. A fellow walked into my camera store and traded it.
I foolishly sold it to a young friend who was an up and coming pro. I realized that I wanted it back, just as he died unexpectedly. The camera didsappeared into the either.

well, as you might have guessed; no they didn't- they did enquire whether or not I wished to send it back for further test, but I declined !
Shame really, because their previous models were good, but Leica and electronics were never their strong suit. Never had a problem with Nikon, Canon, Minolta, or Hassy. Funnily enough, a friend of mine bought a R9 specifically to go on an arctic cruise, had specially weather proofed at further expense; went on her trip- yeah, right..... couldn't even switch the damn thing on ! That was another one that was promptly sold. One of my favourite walk about cameras is the Leica /minolta CLE ; go figure !!