The OM-10 era was also ushered in by the other companies. Canon had the all
plastic bodied AV-1 and Nikon had the EM. All were being introduced at the
same PMA show, and everyone was holding off on announcing THEIR price until
Olympus released the OM-10 price.
It wasn't an indication that the companies had decided to permanently go
cheap, they were just creating a low end SLR that more poeple could afford.
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sue Pearce" <bspearce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 10:33 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: olympus-digest V2 #2334
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| > newcomers to the system. And apparently, Olympus did some stores dirty
in
| > the recent past, which has probably left some store owners with hard
| feelings
| > (I'd like to hear more about this -- can anyone elaborate??).
| > Rich
|
| The owner of a local (Wichita) camera store told me things began to go
| downhill with the OM10. I can't recall what the problem was, but the first
| 10's had some problem that caused them to uniformly fail, as if they had
all
| received a signal from a central location. For whatever reason, Olympus
| determined that this would not be covered by warranty. The store owners
| would send the first one or two to Oly, get the bad news, and listen to
| irate customers scream and yell. They soon figured they could get the
| screaming and yelling without the expense of postage, so customers were
| advised to throw the OM10's away, and get something from a responsible
| manufacturer. When a new customer arrived to look at Olympus products, the
| OM10 story was related, and more often than not, the customer left with a
| canon, Nikon, or most likely, a Minolta.
|
| I'm sorry I can't remember what the fault was, perhaps John or Clint can
| help here. What I do know is the dealers perceived this as a design or
| manufacturing defect common to all early OM10's, and were, to say the
least,
| steamed over the loss of customers that resulted. This particular dealer
| felt that one misguided decision on the part of Olympus management to save
| money in the short term was the foundation for their downfall in the
system
| SLR market.
|
| Bill Pearce
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