Here's the main paragraph of the Photo Industry Reporter article. The new
interchangeable-lens digital SLR *will not* use existing Olympus lenses....
I attempted to supply a link to the article at the end of the paragraph...
While Olympus expects to talk with other digital camera makers about
standardization of lenses, it will reveal at photokina 2002 a sensationally
new interchangeable lens digital AF SLR that uses a 4/3-inch CCD sensor,
roughly half the size of that used by present pro digital cameras but right
up with them in megapixels. The series of Olympus lenses, from extreme wide
angle upwards, will not be compatible with any silver halide imaging camera
system that can also be used with other interchangeable lens digital SLRs. It
will be far smaller and lighter than the lenses of any other digital AF SLR.
These exclusively digital imaging lenses, it’s predicted, will deliver equal
or better results than can be obtained by cameras now trying to span both
silver halide and digital imaging with one series of lenses. Since it will be
virtually impossible for Olympus to field a complete lens system at once,
Olympus hopes other lens makers will jump on the Olympus-mount bandwagon and
produce optics for the new digital Olympus camera.
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HREF="http://www.photoreporter.com/2001/12-01/features/the_way_it_is.html";>Click
here: PHOTO INDUSTRY REPORTER: Issue 9 Number 21: The Way It Is by
Herbert Keppler: What’s New in Japan? Plenty?</A>
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