> Way back when Maitani came up with some brilliant
> ideas to conserve camera weight on an SLR and thus the
> OM system was born.
Just curious -- what did he do that made them lighter than the competition?
> Today the thinking seems to be
> 'its plastic, it'll be lighter so lets just replace
> every metal piece with plastic.' The metal OM bodies
> just can't compete with an all plastic body in terms
> of lightness; same thing about lenses. Now build
> quality... thats a whole different story, you could
> probably take any OM except the 10 series and bash
> almost any current plastic SLR to unusablility, many
> to tiny pieces, without harming the OM.
Yeah, that was what was a bit disturbing about the new wonderbrick --
usability didn't seem too bad; point, zoom, shoot (though why not just get a
point-and-shoot at that stage, of course) but it felt so flimsy..
-- dan
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