Oly have left plenty to go at. No Ultrasonic motors nor image stabilisation
yet. No sign of refraction elements in the teles.
They can release "the best" right now and still have you coming back for
more in 5 years time.
Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Gwinn" <joegwinn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] E-1 lenses resolution vs. conventional lenses - fact or
hype?
> At 3:22 AM +0000 10/11/03, olympus-digest wrote:
> >Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 12:21:08 +0800
> >From: "C.H.Ling" <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: Re: [OM] E-1 lenses resolution vs. conventional lenses - fact or
hype?
> >
> >The concept of the E-system is the lenses are "System" lenses that are
> >capable to go with us to the next generation, if today we bought the
> >E-system lens and tomorrow we have to buy a new set that match the next
> >generation what will you think? We will all go away from Olympus! BTW,
there
> >is no "few" years to wait, end of next year if Olympus does not come out
> >with a 8MP E-2 or E-3, the E-system will end.
>
> I agree, but would submit that it doesn't end there.
>
> I expect that Olympus will come out with a stream of bodies and lenses,
each in some sense better than the last, just as with the OM system starting
thirty years ago. Most people don't replace their cameras every years, but
in five years is another matter. (How many Zuiks have only an OM-1 with one
lens?) The marketing game of all camera makers is to keep us coming back
for another lens here, a body there. Just like computers, for that matter,
although people more often replace computers rather than supplement them.
>
> Joe Gwinn
>
>
> >- ----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Joe Gwinn" <joegwinn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > > But to be a bit cynical, it would make sense to come out with lenses
> >matched to the current 5 Mpixel camera body, and then come out with a far
> >better (more smaller pixels) in a few years, with the corresponding
> >great-advance-in-the-art lens to match. Then we the faithful get to
> >generate a cashflow for many years to come. The trick is to get the cost
of
> >initial entry down, to get us all slightly pregnant.
> > >
> > > Joe Gwinn
>
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