--- Scott Gomez <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Nonetheless, it
> meant that, at least in the USA, Olympus never won
> the hearts and minds of
> even serious hobbyists to the degree that the other
> manufacturers did. >
> it simply never
> achieved the large market segment that was necessary
> to sustain further
> development.
I dunno Scott, when I was selling cameras at
Altmans in Chicago in '73-'75 OM's were moving real
fast, seems like everyone and their dog had an OM
round their neck. There were enough sales to get the
attention of Ni,Ca, and Ptx as they all brought out
compact SLR's in the few years after OM's
introduction.The NBT(next big thing) after the OM-1
was the Canon AE-1, Canon must have sold a gazillion
of them. I think the serious photo hobbiest was always
way outnumbered by the casual shooter that could care
less about controling DOF, carefull framing and using
more of the potential of an interchangeable lens SLR.
Most used them like an oversised P&S so that as the
P&S cameras loaded on more features, by the early 80's
35mm SLR sales started to decline, it hit all the
camera manfactures hard(even Nikon started to market
PS cameras), but of the big 5 only Olympus has bagged
it*heavy sigh* I really hope that they drop a
bombshell at Orlando and bring out "the" pro digital,
I'm waiting, but not waiting well. John Robison
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