And I spoke, not for the first time, to another Olympus dealer not more than
50 miles from Cambridge, who says the adaptor is not available through
dealers, but has to be oredered vis Olympus UK Customer Services, or
possibly through the Olympus Pro support club (forget the 'proper' name for
it. So it does exist - but (as with most things) you have to know who to
ask.
His stock E-1 had gone - sold with FL-40 flashgun to a customer wanting to
take photos of fish - the ones that didn't get away. One of us UK listers
has an ID on that auction site suggesting interest in rods and nets - is it
you John?
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chris Barker
Sent: 07 June 2004 20:29
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] The MA-1 does not exist...
I spoke, for the first time, to an Olympus dealer today. He is at Campkins
in Cambridge, on Rose Crescent. I asked him how sales of the
E-1 were going, "Up and down," he said. He then gave the spiel about
how good the digital lenses were – and needed to be to make the best use of
the sensor's depth of receptors. I accepted that, but I put to him that
many OM users did not want to part with their Zuikos and they were getting
good results from, for instance, their 90/2 lenses.
He looked bemused; he said that the adaptor was not available and would
never be. It had been a pre-production idea for testing the E-1 before the
digital lenses were ready. I did not know whether to believe this (thinking
that it had been part of his recent training course), but I pointed out that
several of you lot had received the adaptor and were using it. He clearly
did not believe me, but said that he would take the Olympus rep to task when
he visited tomorrow (Tuesday 8 June).
I think that I shall speak to him again to see what line the rep spun him...
;-)
Chris
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C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
ftog at threeshoes.co.uk
http://www.threeshoes.co.uk
http://homepage.mac.com/zuiko
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