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The existence of the D1, the Fuji S1, and now the EOS D30 just confirms my
earlier assertion (several months ago).
Olympus' statement about their inability to create a digital camera that
uses the OM-system lenses is Bullshit. There is no technical reason that
the OM-system lenses can't be used on a new digital body. That
Olympus Powerpoint presentation about the inability of standard lenses to
focus the light rays with sufficient parallelism to a CCD is just so much
marketing mumbo-jumbo. IMO, the real reason is that Olympus makes far too
much money on their P&S, ZLR, and digital cameras to cost-justify a new
pro-level digital body. We know it can be done. It probably isn't a cheap
project though.
There's just no more executive fire or evangelism left in the Olympus
organization for the OM-system. Otherwise they'd be like Cosina, which has
introduced the Voigtlander line of products to rave reviews, using the 70yr
old Leica Thread Mount as its lens configuration. The only way that
project got done was that the head of Cosina wanted it as a pet project.
Oh, well, I guess I can come down off my soap box and go back to taking
pictures.
Skip
At 5/17/00 05:27 AM -0500, you wrote:
Looks like Canon has solved the problem of getting light to cooperate
through an SLR to a CCD.
They introduced a digital version of the EOS for <$3000. Very tempting.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0005/00051709canoneosd30.asp
Tom
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