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Subject: [OM] Re: Selling out
From: Skip Williams <om2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:39:11 -0400
Walt,

The quality you could buy will be second to none, IMO.  So it's not a bad 
decision, but it's quite a big one.  A 1Ds and the L lenses you mention are 
quite a beast to handle unless absolutely necessary and cost a pretty penny.

I'm really confused as to why the E-1 isn't on your list.  With all the 
multitude of E-System discussions over the past months, I don't remember your 
decision process or situation, sorry.  The main downsides that I see with the 
current E-System are: lack of alternative bodies, small lens chloice, no IS, 
and uncertainty as to the system's future.  Did I miss anything?  (I won't go 
into my opinions on C/N vs. Olympus.)

For me, those items were not sufficient to make me go to the dark side.  The 
lens selection covers 90% of my current needs.  It does not cover fast, short 
primes or long macro lenses, which are both coming.  I love my E-1, FL50, 3 
zooms, and their performance, which is the real bottom line, right?  It 
produces great prints up to what I've tried so far, 11x14.  I don't need 
anything more, including weight, which I really do not want.

Skip



----- Original Message ---------------

Subject: [OM] Selling out
   From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
   Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 17:08:28 +0000
     To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx (Oly List)

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>From: webteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>To: hiwayman@xxxxxxx 
>Subject: Requested Price 
>Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 15:44:55 +0000 
>
>Dear Customer, 
>
>Our current selling price for the: Canon-EOS-1Ds Digital Camera (Camera Body) 
>is 7,195.95. 
>
>To purchase this item at this price, click below:
>
>[snip] 
>
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>
>I give up.  The digits have worn me down.  Resistance is futile.  I'm 
>seriously, very seriously, considering selling damn near the whole OM kit and 
>kaboodle, in one big lump to a well-known neighborhood purveyor of used photo 
>gear, keeping only a couple of very special pieces.  We have talked already, 
>but no deal has yet been struck.  I'm taking a few days to contemplate.
>
>Should I wait for a probably better and possibly cheaper 1D?  But then would 
>my OM stuff be worth less, too?  The price I have been offered will enable me 
>to begin with only three lenses.  But they are fairly nice ones: 24-70/2.8, 
>70-200/2.8, and 180/3.5 macro.
>
>Sorry, but I'm getting tired of waiting for Olympus to get their s**t 
>together.  I've been abandoned one time too many already.
>
>Who woulda thunk I'd even be considering about this?  A week ago, not even me! 
> Could be just a bit of temporary insanity, a passing fit maybe.  But then 
>again...
>
>Walt
>
>--
>"Anything more than 500 yards from 
>the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
>Edward Weston
>
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