Welcome. Nice to get an insider contributing to the list.
I worry about the price. The E-1 seems obviously designed to a higher
price point and in fact was at a higher price point and drastic price
cuts were made, apparently to sell it. I worry about an expensive E-3
doing the same thing. One wonders whether Olympus will again go into
the no development mode they did with the OM when margins and sales
are too small to justify it.
I hope the E-3 will at least be competitive in the MP count because
that is what people seem to buy. Even those of us who realize that
there is not much difference between a 4/3 5MP and an APS-C 6MP are
not tempted by 5MP when there are sub-$1000 8 and 10MP cameras
available, no matter how well made the E-1.
What happened to the E-2?
I agree with your statement the brand loyalists if you are talking
about the people on the forums. I have concluded that the worst of
them are psychotic and are amused by the responses they elicit.
Not sure what you mean by base-reference zoom.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Aug 29, 2006, at 11:46 AM, khen lim wrote:
>
> Eeeerh.....spectacular? yes.....cheap? no, Winsor, they won't be
> cheap.
> On a slightly brighter side, base-reference zoom lenses are on
> their way.
> Soon.
> 10MP Sony A-100 won't be too much of a problem eventually as sales
> will
> level out in Q1 2007. Right now, yes, because when the A-100 was
> launched,
> no prime competitor was launching. Sales figures spiked
> unrealistically for
> June-July figures especially in Japan (courtesy of figures from Ali ~
> thanks) but they will subside. Remember, Canon just released the
> Rebel XTi
> (still don't like it, anyway) and Nikon, the D80. Both came AFTER
> the A-100
> but still to early to register any big sales figures yet.
> By very late this year, the A-100 will begin to be hit big. That's
> when you
> see the E-3.
>
> K.
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