On Mon, 4 May 1998, Peter Leyssens wrote:
|>>I'd love to see an OM-5, but what the heck would they put in it?
|>
|>Adjustable ratio for fill-in flash.
|>A range of manual speeds - not just one. Say 15, 60, 500.
|>Interfaces to electronic image back - ensuring future growth.
|>Built in MD with optional battery pack extender.
|>No doubt the ubiquitous DX film coding would be there - whether we want
|>it or not.
|
|I expect Olympus to be quite focussed towards digital photography, so I
|expect a digital camera with OM-mount. Let's hope it's got all the
|goodies (e.g. light metering system, compact, compatible, ...). Let's
|also hope that it's future-proof, i.e. you can change the CCD so that
|when the 16Kx16K CCD in full 24-bit, with hardware grain-simulation
|comes out, you can fit it in the OM-5 too. :-)
Well, if they want to make a pro digital camera, you would
have to shoot for 36-bit color (12 bits apiece for red,
green, and blue). After all, there are 36-bit color slide
scanners.
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