How much would they sell it for and who would it compete against?
Olympus has already shown they do not consider current owners part of
their market. So your opinion does not count any more than the
opinion of OM owners counted. A camera body that was originally
priced at $1700 which was probably already considerably below their
original intent has probably not made any profit for Olympus at the
prices it finally settled in with. So a cheaper than $1000 camera
needs a new cheaper, more profitable body and a $2000 body needs more
competitive metering, autofocus and speed as well as being more
economically constructed so that it is still profitable at the end of
the very long Olympus replacement cycle. They need a new body to
separate it entirely from the body that is now selling for less than
$700.
Winsor
Long Beach, CA
USA
On Sep 26, 2006, at 5:19 PM, Johann Thorsson wrote:
>
> I am not particularly bright either, in this field that is. What
> stops Oly
> from simply putting a new sensor in the old and trusty E-1 body?
> Marketing
> issues? Technical issues? Is there any rule which says that every
> new
> digital body has to be more fancy than the last one? The OMs did
> well, and
> all looked more or less the same, and all were pretty attractive
> (and still
> are). In my humble opinion my E-1 is just perfect, I don't need a
> brighter
> viewfinder, I don't need larger LCD, I just want a bit bigger sensor.
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