Le vendredi 30 Septembre 2005 14:43, John Hermanson a écrit :
> Are E-300s sold outside the US minus the EVOLT moniker? Just wondering.
Yes. In Europe, we've not heard of EVOLT at all, and as far as I can tell,
I've never seen 'evolt' written anywhere on the body, in magazines' ads.
There are also other reasons than cross-import restrictions for differences in
branding for basically the same design : depending on the target market, some
functions may be crippled to comply with national patents. I don't know if
Olympus does it, but for instance, the canon EOS A2 is a crippled version of
the EOS 5, because bargraph display of over / under exposure in the
viewfinder in manual mode is (was ?) patented in the USA, and not outside. So
the A2 displays only a +/- sign, while the 5 shows a scale between -2 / +2
EV.
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Manuel Viet
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