First off, this is all predicated on the assumption that the rumor is
true - and I do NOT know that to be a fact:
I'd look for a much more logical, less conspiratorial explanation:
Olympus believes that the OM lenses will not produce optimum results
when used with the E1 (and apparently this is more the case with the
wider than the longer lenses). But they also know that there are those
OM fans who want to be able to use their old lenses. So rather than
market the adapter, and have some people just buy a body and an adapter
- and express disappointment later with the E-1 system (which they will
not really have tried) the company might have simply decided to provide
the adapter to those who were already buying into the system, as a
'thank you.'
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of ClassicVW@xxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 11:01 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Free OM-to-E-System adapter?!
I may be thinking too hard here, but maybe a legal type can answer this
thought I had....
If a company, such as Olympus, were to offer a product, such as this
adapter,
to be used with products no longer supported by the company (the OM lens
line) [I also know that Olympus is probably legally forced to support
for a while
at least the last few lenses that they manufactured these past couple of
years] would this possibly go against Olympus and now make them
responsible to
offer support of the OM lenses? And if selling such an item would do
that, would
giving the item away free relieve them of such responsibility?
George S.
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