Welcome Khen. I'm one of those who couldn't wait for Olympus any longer
and jumped ship to a Canon 5D after 30 years of OM ownership. I stick
around here because of the wisdom and cameraderie and because I still
own (and sometimes actually use) OM gear.
Don't take offense that my first response to you personally on the list
is to question your statement but I think the following is hard to
defend and needs clarification at least. You said:
"Remember this and remember well, the Four-Third's sensor does not
require the same number of megapixels to beat a full-frame 35mm sensor."
I'm not a proponent of the megapixel race and I can read a lot of
things into this statement apart from the megapixel race so please tell
us precisely what you mean.
Chuck Norcutt
khen lim wrote:
> On 30/08/06, Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>>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.
>
>
>
> Demographic anomalies exist with the E-series. It does very well in Europe
> spurred on by a very matured structure and a sophisticated and well-thought
> out professional programme. In Malaysia, it's been in oblivion and sales are
> generally disastrous not helped by a local mob that knows NOTHING about
> promoting it. The E-3 will be more or less in a similiar price bracket as
> what the E-1 began albeit a little higher. That's the forecast I understood
> from Shinju-ku although this applies to UK because the first price
> structures they work on are for Europe then followed by North America.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> No, Winsor, no more. And in fact, Olympus did not intentionally go into a
> no-dev mode during the OM days. I was there. We were gobsmacked - stunned in
> fact - by how Minolta was taken to the cleaners and back with Honeywell's
> successful but damaging lawsuit. The whole market was reeling from the
> effects. After that, Olympus went back to the drawing boards to redesign
> their passive AF system and that meant losing a lot of ground to Canon and
> Nikon. If it weren't for the lawsuit, pretty much what you've been seeing
> today with Olympus' market position wouldn't have been there. We tried to
> salvage bits with first the OM-707 (77AF) followed by the OM-101PF but we
> failed. In fact the OM-101PF had a cavity under the mirror box ready for an
> evolutionary upgrade to AF but that didn't happen for obvious reasons. The
> fact though was that the OM-101PF's focus-by-wire technology was and still
> is utterly brilliant because it was truly digitally velocity-sensitive and
> you will see it relivened soon. OM days weren't predicated by poor margins
> and sales so much as they were hampered by the fact that Maitani's
> suggestion for the OM-5 did not pass the mustard with the board. We were all
> very disappointed. For better or worse, the loss of the OM-5 changed
> directions for the entire company, prompting Maitani to eventually retire.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> The E-3 will be extremely close to an effective Mpix count of around 10.2 to
> 11Mpix. No, the E-3 will not compare directly with its natural rivals if one
> were to use Mpix as a yardstick. It's pretty much uncannily similiar to the
> battle between AMD and Intel in the computing industry where the former
> might have a 'slower' clockspeed but in effect, runs as fast as the latter.
> Remember this and remember well, the Four-Third's sensor does not require
> the same number of megapixels to beat a full-frame 35mm sensor.
>
> What happened to the E-2?
>
>
> It's there. :) .... I apologise but I really cannot disclose much about
> this just yet. But it's there. It sure is there. And there are other
> E-series DSLRs very much ready to be unleashed. At least one of them is
> consumer-grade and two are prosumer-grade.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> This term is used internally to refer to lenses designed more for
> consumer-grade consumption such as those meant for the E-xxx range of DSLRs.
>
> 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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