Yep, likely functional silos kept the teams apart. The professional guys are
probably in a skunk works, with their own resources.
Ahem...the pro team wouldn't want to be seen associating with the "consumer"
guys,...would they?
But all kidding aside, you're almost certainly right. The 8080 is an evolution
of other Camedia models, not a scaled down E-System camera,
Skip
>
>Subject: [OM] Re: C8080
> From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:27:58 -0500
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>It's amazing that the prosumer camera (from an interface and software
>standpoint) isn't a near knock-off of the E-1. Clearly lots of
>attention paid to usability and the development cost is already sunk.
>
>My guess is that the C8080 guys probably didn't have access to the E-1
>development team who, in true corporate and divisional fashion, probably
>held all of their cards close to the vest even internally.
>
>Seen it all before,
>Chuck Norcutt
>
>Skip Williams wrote:
>
>> Image quality isn't everything. For me, handling is right up there. I have
>> a Canon G2 and it produces spectacular results, but it has mediocre
>> usability, IMO.
>>
>> Olympus needs to pay attention the the little things on their pro-sumer
>> cameras, just like they did on the E-1. It has very few faults, and almost
>> none of them are in the usability area.
>
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