Winsor,
I doubt whether Nikon wants to ramp up production of their MF lenses. It's
easier to keep everyone onto autofocus lenses and the economies of scale
that it brings.
And to be honest, the MF market is VERY small in the grand scheme of camera
sales. 990f the picture-taking public don't know how, nor do they have
any desire to use a manual focus camera.
Actually, I think that the sales of the FM3a, the recent incarnation of the
FM, are very poor. I've heard that Nikon is considering cancelling the
model. They are $800. One has sat in my local store for about a year,
unsold, while the high-end digital Prosumer CP5000, CP995, G2's, Nikon
N65's, Canon EOS Rebels, etc. disapper at a rapid pace.
But even with all this negative talk, I'd love to see just what you
suggest. I'm just confident that it won't happen, do I'm trying to keep
myself from becoming delusional.
Skip
Original Message:
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From: Winsor Crosby wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 11:45:13 -0700
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Ideal System Digicam
It occurs to me that there is a huge pool of people who are using old
and fairly new manual focusing cameras who resist the move to all
auto cameras because of the ease of control and familiarity of what
they use. There are also, I think, a large pool of people who have
made the move to auto everything because they thought it was progress
and they hate it.
If a company like Nikon can continue to sell FMs why could they not
build a manual focus digital camera with an easy to use metering
system. It would be optimized for use like our beloved OM4Ti, not an
autocam with manual option as an afterthought. Sort of an FM or
OM4Ti with a digital imaging system instead of film. It could have
interchangable screens and a large fixed LCD on the back for just
viewing the recorded image perhaps with a gray scale at the bottom of
it for reference. Seems like it would draw lots of new customers who
would never buy an auto everything camera and provide lots of new
sales for their line of manual focus lenses.
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Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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