Olympians (rather than Zuikoholics)!
I had a glance at the Olympus Japan site in Japanese and I found something I had
missed before. Olympus Sales Company has just opened a digital service shop
next to the Olympus Plaza which is a showroom of the Olympus products and where
the Tokyo Service Center is located.
The new digital service shop includes large print services using the customer's
digital files, rental of Olympus digital equipment (one week rental), and
digital printers available for use by customers at the shop.
I recall Gary Schloss's post on his difficulty in getting a rental unit from the
Olympus America's service center in California.
Olympus America's site shows the C-2500 included as a new product. The C-2500
has not been announced by Olympus Japan. While Olympus America is touting the
Stylus Epic Zoom 80 CF (with a visual finder to indicate that a picture has been
taken) as an 80th anniversary commemorative model. Olympus Japan has not done
so.
Olympus Japan is touting three 3.5" portable MO drives: 230MB, 640MB and 1.3GB.
The Olympus America site is only listing the 230MB MO. If Olympus America did a
good job of marketing the MO's, it would have competed with the Zip drives.
With more people buying the digital cameras, they would need removable drives to
store their images. While Zip drives are cheap, the Zip disks are not. The
opposite is true with the MO drives. Short-sighted consumers buy Zip drives and
end up spending a lot of money buying the disks (myself included).
Tomoko Yamamoto
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http://www.charm.net/~tomokoy/
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