CyberSimian you have some points but...Canon and Nikon's chance of survival
in 5 years go hand in hand with the fact that you can use their "AUTO FOCUS"
film lenses with their DSLRs. Had Olympus had an auto focus system maybe it
would have had the same chances of survival as C and N. You are asking for a
system, I think that you have one in front of you newly bornin the E-1
system. Now with time to start getting the lenses as they come out and
building your system that may last 20 more years....maybe.
peace
David
>
> Let me understand. NO ONE has an OM mount digital body, so jump ship because
> Oly has aconviction about a new line ot lenses designed for digital? N and C
> have such lenses, too, but they cost more. IS, however, is an issue.
>
> Earl
> CyberSimian wrote:
>>
>> I get the impression that the majority of members of this list are long-time
>> OM users (measured in decades rather than merely years). I think that we
>> remained OM users because the OM cameras and lenses did what we wanted, and
>> subsequent advances such as autofocus, matrix metering, body-integral
>> autowind, and auto fill flash did NOT worsen the performance of our OM
>> equipment. We invested in a SYSTEM that we wanted to use for a long time.
>>
>> It seems to me that many of us will take that attitude with us when we
>> consider purchasing a digital SLR -- that is, we want a SYSTEM that will
>> last a long time. (Bodies will come and go, but it is the system that is
>> important.) This raises the question of which digital SLR systems will
>> still be here in 5 years time. I am 100% sure that both Can*n and Nik*n
>> will be. And the chances for Min*lta (digital SLR available later this
>> year) and Pent*x are pretty good too -- greater than 50% I would estimate.
>> But will the Olympus E system still be here in 5 years time? Sad to say I
>> put the chances of this at no better than 50%, possibly less. What the
>> other systems have that the E system lacks is a lens mount that is common
>> with their film SLRs. Although the MA-1 adapter allows OM lenses to be used
>> on the E1, the need to use stop-down metering reduces its appeal
>> dramatically, with the result that vast numbers of existing OM users will
>> not consider the E system to be the natural migration path for their
>> photographic equipment.
>>
>> I am not privy to digital-SLR sales figures, or to the talk amongst camera
>> dealers, so I am amply qualified to judge these matters, and you can rely on
>> my survivability estimates for the different digital SLR systems as being
>> completely accurate.
>>
>> -- from Cyber "Hal 9000" Simian in the UK
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