E-1 is already shipping to dealers, so it is essentially on sale.
Olympus has removed all MA-1 references from their dealer list of E-1
system items. Image was theirs, though I never saw it on the Olympus site,
I got it from DPreview. I am assuming all pics are gone from the dealer
section.
Since Olympus America is a wholly owned subsidiary of Olympus Japan, it will
be Japan's decision to allow the MA-1 to be sold or not. (Someone else
will) build it and they will come. ;-)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Duncan Paterson" <paterson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] OM to E-1 adapter - a slightly different reply from Tokyo
> Did they say on what grounds they wanted the picture removed. Is it
because
> they have not publicly announced its existence yet or because it's an
> unofficial image? Is the image displayed on the dealer website?
>
> My guess is that they're in denial about it until the E-1 goes on sale and
> they see what the response is like. I guess they don't want to risk
> flattening sales of the new lenses (particularly the longer ones) with
> customers opting to buy the body only to try with old Zuikos + MA-1. Still
> very strange behaviour though. I talked to a representative of Olympus
> Switzerland on Saturday who was promoting the E-System with a
> pre-production model and a couple of lenses and he claimed to know nothing
> at all about the adapter.
>
> I agree that third parties will decide to cash in on the demand themselves
> if Olympus is too sluggish.
>
> Cheers,
> Duncan.
>
>
> At 15:22 02/10/03, you wrote:
> >Yes, and as a follow up to THAT I must add that yesterday I was politely
> >asked by Olympus America to remove the pictures of the MA-1 adapter from
my
> >website.
> >
> >I offered my opinion that if they decided to not sell the adapter they
would
> >be telling their LOYAL customers to "go away" and that many would go to
> >Nikon and Canon if for no other reason than spite. Also, not selling the
> >adapter, they might as well just kick themselves in the nuts for all the
> >good it'll do. How long before Tamron or Tokina come out with the
adapter,
> >anyway?!
>
>
> ----------
> Dr. Duncan E. Paterson
> Laboratorium fuer Organische Chemie
> ETH Hoenggerberg, HCI H312
> CH-8093 Zuerich
>
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> Fax: +41 1 63 31 095
>
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