>>Paul Van Tuyl wrote:
>>>
>>> One reason for the disparity is that OLYMPUS believes the 3Ti will become a
>>> collector classic like the original 3! They are keeping the price
>artificially
>>> high, accordingly. Paul.
>>
>> Well...that's just bizarre. Why on earth would they care
>>(financially speaking) if their camera is valued as a collector's piece
>>after the initial sale? Especially if they don't intend to actively
>>support their OM line (as others have suggested is the case) the way
>>Nikon has tended to support it's SLR line. But whatever. I'm not
>>doubting you, just trying to fathom the logic.
>>
>>Cheers
>>Ryan
>
>
>Well, the OM-3 has become a collector's item, hasn't it? And so by
>introducing
>the OM-3Ti Olympus believes that they create another collector's camera.
>The reason they care about that is that it then allows them to price it at a
>collector's price -- and they rake in the profits. Once all the OM-3Tis are
>sold, I agree that Olympus will care less about how it retains its value
>as a collector's piece.
>
As others have mentioned on the list, I think that it probably more a
matter of volume and manufacturing design. I am guessing that Olympus sells
10 OM4Tis for every OM3Ti. Even if Oly does a volume run and then
warehouses them until sold, the manufacturing run on OM3Ti is going to be
much, much smaller than that for an OM4T. Lost economy of scale. In the
meantime, since the original basic design, everything else from cameras to
cars has been redesigned to be robotically assembled with fewer and simpler
to assemble parts. As a result a camera like the OM3Ti becomes much more
costly to assemble than the usual wonderbrick.
Winsor
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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