I hear what you are saying. But I think their status on the marked would be
considerably better if they had released "E-1n" with larger sensor and/or
larger LCD, if that is what was needed to make it more feasible for the
buyers. It can't be that expensive to adapt an already existing body, and
this would also have shown that accessories for the old E-1 would probably
be compatible with later models, so it wouldn't have had to be that more
expensive due to minimal R&D. But I don't have a clue on how realistic this
is, if they had any good sensors available, or if it is simply impossible to
fit things like larger LCD in the current E-1 body design. And I have no
clue how these "market things" work, or what the demography wants today. I
just know that I am very very happy with my E-1 as it is, just wish
sometimes it had more MPs.
Would be fun to know if Olympus ever considered this.
J
> 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
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