... well, the Olympus company also made the 24-shift, 20 and 38 auto-macro,
the ecru, etc... These all were not sold by the tens of thousands I suppose.
(however, I am day-dreaming)
iwert.
op 21-04-2003 15:49 schreef Bill Pearce op bspearce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> ....the Olympus company. Many, if not all of us, want a digital body that
> will accept our existing lenses. If I were Olympus, I wouldn't bother, for
> purely economic reasons. It would cost some money to develop, and what would
> be the result? A few people (after all, we know that there but about 500
> members on this list worldwide) would buy one, and then, nothing else. It
> would be like making a razor, but not the blades. If they were to do this,
> it would be even more expensive than the last price on the OM3T, and have an
> even more limited market.
>
> That doesn't even begin to consider the problems of selling the public a MF
> camera.
>
> Bill Pearce
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