At 15:11 11/19/01, Skip Williams wrote:
[snip]
1. Money: more $$ from new produts instead of selling
long-out-of-production OM Zuikos
2. Autofocus: OM lenses = no autofocus = Olympus looks archaic against
Nikon and Canon
[snip]
You hit the primary reason with #1, and #2 covers the majority of the
technical issues used to justify it. Although Olympus touts optimal ray
paths as the reason, and that also poses technical issues, I believe it's
secondary to the auto-focus problem. Neither of the technical issues are
as important to Olympus as the belief they can generate more operating
income (read: profit) by *not* making their digitals compatible with OM
system lenses. If they believed otherwise, you can bet they would have
designed at least some of the high end digitals for backward
compatibility. Olympus is a "_for_profit_" corporation, and operating
income is the key driver in their decision-making.
-- John
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