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Subject: [OM] Re: [Digital] It's over
From: "Robert Swier" <robert.swier@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:13:14 -0500
I am very disheartened at the lack of an update to the Olympus
professional line. Not that I was planning to buy the new body as soon
as it was available, but if I wanted to put more money into the
E-System, then I want Olympus to be doing the same. Because sooner or
later I *will* want another body, and if there isn't a new one
available at time, I think I'll end up deciding that buying into the
E-System was a mistake.

In this respect, professional camera systems are a strange market.
Confidence for buying products today depends on believing that updates
will be available for those products more or less indefinitely.

In the short term, this probably means that I'm buying a 40--150,
rather than a 50--200. I've been holding off on the purchase of a
longer lens because I actually want the 50--200, but it is a little on
the pricey side for a graduate student. The lack of an E-1 update
makes the decision to go for the cheaper option much more attractive.

I can't imagine what the owners of the $6000 300/2.8 are
thinking...(That is, if Olympus has actually sold any of those.)

Robert Swier
Toronto

On 2/27/06, Walt Wayman <hiwayman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > Is this the way free market capitalism works now? Fewer and fewer
> > choices? The last behemoth eating its last competitor and then
> > deciding that product is not profitable enough so nobody has a
> > camera? Seems like it used to work the other way round. What changed?
>
> I'd say uncontrollable greed on the supply side and an ever increasing herd 
> mentality in the consuming sector might play some part.
>
> Anyway, although disappointed by the apparent lack of a new Oly DSLR, I'm not 
> ready to drive off a cliff or slash my wrists.  I'm quite well satisfied with 
> the E-1 and, being a reasonably competent photographer accoutred with a 
> proper array of lenses and other doo-dads who seldom finds it necessary to 
> crop extensively and has no printing paper larger than 11.7x16.5 inches, I 
> find 5MP sufficient for my use 97.9% of the time.  Barring some different, 
> more happy news from Olympus, I now probably will add a 330, mainly for macro 
> purposes, and live, if not happily ever after, at least another year or so 
> before donning a disguise or hiding in shame to avoid the derision of the 
> hyperpixelated Canon and Nikon herd.
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
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