On Dec 2, 2003, at 1:56 AM, Christoph Berndt wrote:
As far as they're concerned, the original Zuiko User Group is small
and
old. So I was told.
cheers
:Doro
One wonders about the wisdom of that statement from Olympus. I have
always been amazed when someone publishes the large number of
subscribers to this list - not just the people who contribute
regularly. And it is a list for a camera system that was really
discontinued years before the official announcement. A number of times
I have encountered people on trips using Olympus SLRs that have never
heard of the list.
I have spent quite a bit of time on some of the dpreview.com forum in
the past several months and one thread on the Nikon forum was people
submitting self portraits. Big thread. Believe me, the age demographic
there did not look much different than the one here. The interesting
part is that they are all using digital SLRs! So if Olympus thinks
there is no market in "old folks" they are foolish indeed. Almost as
foolish as a company which at this point has zero percent of the
digital SLR market rejecting an enthusiastic customer base because it
is small, especially since it will not hurt their chances to get all
those pros from Canon and Nikon desperately looking for an
alternative.(irony)
Winsor
Long Beach, California
USA
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