hans,
that was exacly my point, it is a MARKETING SCHEME. they are targeting a
segment of what they feel is an emerging market. the fact that they are
coupling this with the centurion says it all. i just forgot to mention this
in the earlier post. if you check out their website, it is there already.
there are people out there who want to scan their photographs without
creating a hole in their pocket but still get decent images good enough to
be transmitted thru the internet or be printed without the need of a
computer. tthere is the emerging market of purely digital photography on an
a mass market basis. take a picuture have the film processed, take it home
and print it. no need of a computer interface. if you saw a recent new york
times article, only a little less than half of american households have
computers. this, i think, is what they are trying to explore with these
products. the reason that i would want an es-10 is because it fits my need
and budget for now, not because it is the best out there, because it is not
and certainly not because it has olympus plastered on it.
francis
VELUWEH@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Francis wrote:
>
> >i think this is oly marketing at work again. it is just like the way
> >they started the IS series which is a successful design because it
> >targeted a certain segment of consumers and cornered it. i think the
> >es-10 is aimed for people exactly like us, not exactly professional and
> >not exactly oozing with dinero. but with enough sense to know what we
> >need. i think this is aimed at those internet scanners where the
> maximum
> >resolutin really depends on the monitors that are being used and not
> the
> >scanner that is uploading the image. you basically don't need those
> >megapixel scanners for the internet and i don't think you want those
> >because it will eat up your webpage space unless again you are willing
> >to pay for the space.
>
> I don't think the ES-10 should be called an 'Internet scanner'.
> Internet imaging quality, which is monitor resolution based, ends
> somewhere at 800x600 pixels. The ES-10 resolution goes beyond that, and
> is well suited for Olympus' own photo printer, which is limited to
> postcard format. Unfortunately this photo printer isn't exactly
> state-of-the-art anymore, beaten as it is by the Epson Stylus Photo,
> which is a very affordable A4 photo printer. And A4 is just too much
> for the ES-10. What you get with a better scanner like the CoolScan and
> the Stylus Photo is not only Internet imaging, but also a digital
> darkroom. You don't need to be a pro earning bread and butter with OM
> to want that...
>
> BTW for those of you who still want the ES-10 (maybe only because the
> name of their favourite imaging brand is printed on it...) - have a
> peak at:
> http://www.olympus.com/camera/photostudio/photostudio.html
> and
> http://www.olympus.com/camera/centurion/centurions.html.
>
> They're planning to release a combination package called "Photo Studio"
> that contains the ES-10 with APS module and an updated version of the
> Centurion (named "S" for Silver. Yuck!). The latter finally supports
> MRC (about just in time, given the fact that now some more serious APS
> films are being released, including B&W). Now if only they could retain
> the black color... Anyway, this package should be way cheaper than its
> individual components, and it gives you yet another camera with THE
> brand printed on it.
>
> Hans
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