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[OM] Re: OT dpreview on the F30 - you heard it here first.

Subject: [OM] Re: OT dpreview on the F30 - you heard it here first.
From: John Hermanson <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:30:01 -0400
Olympus just announced price cuts on the E-500 sets.  2 lens set should 
sell now for anywhere from $699 to $749

Closed 7/27 through 8/6
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John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
21 South Lane, Huntington NY 11743
631-424-2121 | Olympus OM Service since 1977
http://www.zuiko.com  |  omtech1 AT verizon.net


Winsor Crosby wrote:
> I am afraid you are right. I can understand that price drives sales  
> and that price competition has made small cameras unprofitable, but  
> is the lowest common denominator the only one being catered to?  I  
> would gladly give up a color LCD replacing it with a small black and  
> white that would just give me data and a histogram if I had a decent  
> viewfinder. I would even pay a little more. What I don't get is that  
> there are predictions of $400 DSLRs by next year and they can't make  
> and sell a decently featured small cam for the same price.
> 
> I mention Nikon because I know about it, but since they have dropped  
> all the upper line Coolpix models and only make little  
> viewfinderless, cheap purse cameras they are turning a decent profit  
> on them for the first time in a long time. Nothing like the little  
> cams that lured many of us to our first digital experience are being  
> made any more. A shame really.
> 
> 
> 
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA
> 
> 
> 
> 


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