Nikon and Pentax users prefer buying AF offbrand lenses cause they can use
them on both manual and AF bodies. Canon and Minolta dropped their FD and MD
lines at all. Yashica/Contax users I do think try to buy Carl Zeiss lenses
only. So why manifacturing MF lenses? Olympus choice to make AF OM lenses
not compatible with conventional OM bodies was a unique marketing strategy
and most likely an error.
Marco
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>Da: William Sommerwerck <williams@xxxxxxxxxx>
>A: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Oggetto: [OM] Andreas Feininger; concave front element; loss of
manual-focus lenses
>Data: Dom, 21 feb 1999 14:53
>
>It seems that independent lens makers are moving in the direction of
supplying
>lenses _only_ for AF cameras. This was brought home forcefully when I
noticed an
>ad for the new Vivitar Series 1 28-210 zoom. It's available only for AF
mounts.
>
>This is both disappointing and surprising. You'd think there would be
enough
>owners of manual-focus cameras to justify producing these lenses in those
>mounts. And the extra sales would help amortize development costs and keep
the
>price down.
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