Hi Cyber:
Very good points, at least with the OM you can always upgrade your film as
technology marches, that is the rub on digital, you have to upgrade the
camera.
Gord
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From: "CyberSimian" > 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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