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Re: [OM] Digital Camera that takes OM lenses (READ!)

Subject: Re: [OM] Digital Camera that takes OM lenses (READ!)
From: "M. Royer" <royer007@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:07:09 -0800 (PST)
Whoa my one little hope that a new Olympus digicam
having a significantly smaller registration number
(thus making it possible to make an OM adapter) has
really turned bitter. Jeez I would'nt have said
anything if I knew this was going to happen.

Mark Lloyd


--- Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >: >1. Money: more $$ from new produts instead of
> selling
> >: >long-out-of-production OM Zuikos
> >: >2. Autofocus: OM lenses = no autofocus = Olympus
> looks archaic against
> >: >Nikon and Canon
> >: [snip]
> >:
> >: You hit the primary reason with #1, and #2 covers
> the majority of the
> >: technical issues used to justify it.  Although
> Olympus touts optimal ray
> >: paths as the reason, and that also poses
> technical issues, I believe it's
> >: secondary to the auto-focus problem.  Neither of
> the technical issues are
> >: as important to Olympus as the belief they can
> generate more operating
> >: income (read: profit) by *not* making their
> digitals compatible with OM
> >: system lenses.  If they believed otherwise, you
> can bet they would have
> >: designed at least some of the high end digitals
> for backward
> >: compatibility.  Olympus is a "_for_profit_"
> corporation, and operating
> >: income is the key driver in their
> decision-making.
> >
> >
> >Otoh they've been keeping the OM System alive for
> the last decade not
> >because they've been making so much profit from it,
> but more out of loyalty
> >towards existing users, and probably also to keep
> the name Olympus Optical
> >co. in the ranks of builders of serious camera
> systems. They could apply
> >this loyalty, the same that made them market the
> OM-3Ti and the 35-80/2.8
> >six years ago, to release at least one digital OM
> body, or a Camedia/Zuiko
> >adapter.
> >
> >Will Olympus make serious profit from a digital
> 'OM'? I think they will.
> >There must be tens of thousands of Zuiko owners who
> are watching the digital
> >revolution. How many of them will rush to the shop
> when Olympus releases a
> >digital body for them they can afford? I know I
> would. And if this body
> >would also work with a range of dedicated AF lenses
> I would also buy one or
> >more of these (if only to cover the wide angle
> range, or to use the full
> >range of features including AF). We form a big
> group of potential buyers;
> >let's hope Olympus realizes this.
> >
> >Lens compatibility and quality are better sales
> arguments than brand
> >loyalty, that's for sure. So if Olympus only
> releases a new system without
> >any OM compatibility, it better has someting the
> competition doesn't have.
> >
> >hnz
> >
> 
> 
> How many of this "big group of potential buyers"
> have rushed to buy 
> an OM3T(up to $1600 in the latest B&H catalog) or
> 35-80/2.8?  Maybe 2 
> or 3 percent of OM users? I don't know but I would
> say that Olympus 
> would look at OM users and used camera auction
> bottom feeders as a 
> dead market.  The most you might get would be a
> cheap digital cam 
> with multiple nameplates and mounts from some maker
> like Cosina. And 
> apparently Cosina's  effort in that nondigital area
> has not been too 
> successful. It is the economic interest of Olympus
> to lure you into 
> spending for a new camera system not just an
> addition to a system you 
> already have. Just hope Olympus continues to think
> that having the OM 
> system gives them some kind of status as a serious
> player.
> -- 
> Winsor Crosby
> Long Beach, California
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