I may be dead wrong, but it's my understanding Olympus WILL have several
announcements at PMA.
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From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Brokaw
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 3:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [OM] E-System news
on 12/12/03 8:23 AM, Pschings@xxxxxxx at Pschings@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Besides cooperating with Kodak and Fuji in building
> the 4/3 camera system, a major independent lens manufacturer (that we
> promised not to name now) will be producing optics for the system.
> Olympus will have little new at PMA, but Photokina could see the intro
> of the medium-priced camera."
Hmmm... let the speculation begin! I first thought of Tamron, Tokina,
and Sigma. But then I thought, Sigma makes its own film and digital
SLR's that use the 'Sigma' mount already, so supporting the 4/3 mount
would be competing against themselves... does that make sense? Then I
thought, maybe Cosina would introduce 4/3 mount lenses... they are
making enough stuff for enough different companies that they might not
care about cross-competition, and they already have some experience
making "Zuiko" lenses in the past...
At any rate, the bit about the medium and low priced versions causes me
to wonder what they will 'leave off' to justify the upgrade. I suppose
the medium price version could just be an E-20 with the 4/3 lens mount
-- not an entirely bad prospect at all...
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
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