I get Olympus Pursuit with my OCC UK mailing, may have the company
executive names/addresses in that, I'll check it out tonight. Its just a
company in-house magazine saying how good Olympus is, with many group pics
of office staff etc, nothing about photography though.
Good idea about the letter, may get some sort of statement about OM's
future. I wrote to Olympus Japan about overcharging in the UK, they said
that they did not know why, but they had no control over local pricing.
Got usual ambiguous answer from Olympus UK, to the effect that everything
is cheaper in the States etc.
Richard
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Subject: Re: [OM] Future of OM
May be Gary, Warren, Winsor, Tomoko... can draft an e-mail/letter:
....persuading Olympus to sell its OM division
....(or its OM knowledge, tools and patents)
....to Pentax so that Pentax can continue to
....maintain and expand the OM line of products
....or some form of cooperative nature to resusitate OM.....
and send/mail it directly to both Presidents of Pentax and Olympus in
Japan.
If e-mail, the job is to find the Presidents' e-mail address, so that
all those downline vice-presidents/directors/managers can be bypassed.
If air-mail, the job is to find the Presidents' name and mailing
address, and simply address the envelope to them direct. (the Japanese
has this good custom at least that somebody will reply)
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Gary Schloss wrote:
>
> >Warren Kato wrote:
> >
> > > In a message dated 98-03-26 20:47:19 EST, Winsor Crosby wrote:
> > >
> > > I just looked at a friend's new Pentax ZX-5. What a nice little
camera.
> > >
> >
> >I wonder if Pentax and Olympus are friends? They could rebadge the
camera and
> >add an AF OM mount, compatible with present OM lenses, while Olympus
could
> >continue to sell its present line of lens and bring out a few new AF
lenses.
> >Then they wouldn't have to go through the probably (incredibly) high
start up
> >costs on a new body. (Just a thought...)
>
> Hey, you two must be new to the list, or must have me in your kill file.
>
> Several months ago, I suggested here that Olympus and Asahi Pentax are
> ripe for a friendly merger -- at least, their photogear divisions are.
> Both companies' approaches to 35mm and design philosophies are similar.
> Moreover, their relative strengths complement each other: Pentax is
> strong in AF, medium format, etc., whereas Olympus is stronger in P&S
> as well as in digital photography.
>
> Of course, since we are talking Japan here, this is unlikely to happen.
> Too bad for both companies, IMHO :-(
>
> Cheers,
>
> /Gary Schloss.
> Studio City, CA
> schloss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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