Garth,
Technical issues aside, I'm thinking bottom line $$$ which is what really
runs a company. Why would a company come out with a digital body that can
take lenses the same company made years ago and are now on the used market
. . . when it can make a whole new line of lenses and _sell_ them to the
new digital owner? Especially if the company views its potential digital
market population as much larger than the percentage of the OM owning
population that might be interested in digital bodies pre-existing OM
Zuiko's (I'm not one of them, so it's something less than 100%).
Larger revenue equals larger profit if the product has a sound business
plan behind it with a solid profit (i.e. you're not shipping a $5 bill with
each one going out the door). The strategy of using pre-existing lenses
under these conditions would make more sense to a third party (someone
other than Olympus) that wants to make a digital body but is not making and
for whatever reason does not want to start making lenses.
I'm sure I'll be accused of heresy again.
-- John
At 04:15 3/21/01, Garth Wood wrote:
If so, I'm thinking Oly might bring out a digital system with
interchangeable lenses which are *not* OM System Zuikos. Sad for
backwards-compatibility, but perhaps Olympus believes that they need to
create the "OM System of the Future." Then we'd all have a whole 'nuther
set of Olympus System stuff we could lust after, crave, hoard, scrabble
about for in the dark, etc. ... Hmmmm, in five years' time, I could have
TWO *bitchin'* sets of Olympus systems. Yeah, baby, YEAH! 8^>
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