Warren,
Fascinating point you made which I entirely missed.
At 03:21 AM 12/18/99 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 99-12-17 20:13:14 EST, you, Kurt Hurley, wrote:
>
>> The major obstacle is that the Canon and Nikon/
>> Kodak high end digital SLR product offerings have full auto focus lens
>> systems, whereas Olympus's would not be without considerable effort.
>
>Contax went to a great deal of effort to design the AX to give auto focus
>compatibility to all their MF lens. But a digital autofocus body wouldn't
>have to move the whole shutter/mirror/pressure plate box back and forth to
>focus. It, assuming that there was no TTL viewfinder, would only need to
>move the CCD and the viewing would be electronic. Voila, the digital OM5.
>
>Warren.
>
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