My first/only 35mm film camera was an Olympus OM-1.

This was purchased when I was about 16 years old, and documented our trip to Europe and was the 35mm camera I used as, literately, a professional photographer.

Why Olympus (at the time – 1975ish) over Canon or Nikon? No idea (over Leica – $$$$).

Olympus has bailed from the camera biz – sold to the same Japanese company that snarfed up Sony’s Viao computer division. This includes the digital division of the camera maker (is there still one there???).

End of an era.