Remember, it all started with the Pen half-frames! Limitations in film
and lens technology hurt them; and, IMHO, the vertical format.
Then they tried APS and got the format right, but the processing just
doesn't do justice to the film and the lenses on the better cameras.
Small film/sensor makes so much sense, if you have fine enough
grain/sensor density, smaller, lighter, cheaper (in the long run)
camera's and lenses. There could even be a significant decline in back
and shoulder problems among serious photographers!
If third time is the charm for quality 'small sensor', it seems fitting
for Oly to do it.
Moose
Here's the main paragraph of the Photo Industry Reporter article. The
new
interchangeable-lens digital SLR *will not* use existing Olympus
lenses....
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, itâEUR^(TM)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.
<A
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: WhatâEUR^(TM)s New in Japan? Plenty?</A>
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