I agree with almost everything you say, but I would like to put this
designed from the ground up statement to rest. Yes, they were. Because
they had to. The OMs were designed from the ground up because Olympus
did not make a system 35mm full frame SLR before. The E-1 was designed
from the ground up because Olympus did not make a modern autofocus 35mm
system camera before. To make failure to keep up with the competition
an advantage is just marketing spin to me. Other makers did not have to
redesign from the ground up because they all ready had good autofocus,
sophisticated auto exposure systems, camera bodies designed around
them, perfectly fine lens systems that work on the bodies that have all
ready proven themselves in the field. The only lenses that proved
unsuitable for digital were wide angle primes and zooms which were
quickly redesigned, or replaced.
I was sentimental about Olympus too because of my OM, but when the
digital bug bit me earlier two years after they announced the 4/3
system and the camera was still not out I made my move. Olympus
announcements that there would be no compatibility with OM lenses and
discontinuance of the film camera system concentrated my sentimentality
on my experiences with my OM4T and not the company who made it.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Oct 15, 2004, at 10:37 AM, Wiliam Wagenaar wrote:
> After looking around for quite
> some time now I have allmost decided I want the E-1. Why the E-1 in
> steds of
> the Canon or Nikon stuff? Mainly because I am an sentimental OM user
> and
> have been very satisfied with everything OM I have ever owned for the
> last
> 27 years. My most useds body (OM-2n, bought new in '79 from my first
> earnings aoff a hollyday job when I was 15) has never left ma in the
> cold. I
> have taken it everywhere I went from Netherlands through the middle
> east,
> into engine rooms of ships and in boiler rooms of power plants, to The
> US
> east coast, Western Canada, you name it. Everywhere I have been that
> camera
> has been. I will never ever sell it, even if it will eventually fall
> apart.
>
> Secondly I still want to continu using the OM-2n, together with teh
> 4-Ti I
> bought on ebay in '98 and Zuiko glass, ranging from 21 to 300mm. I am
> just
> not ready to part with all that. With the Om to E-systems adapter I can
> continue to use this glass.
>
> Furthermore I am also quite fond of the effort Olympus made by
> designing the
> E-system from the ground up. Very much like they did when they
> launched the
> OM-series.
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