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Re: [OM] Why Oly is in a hole

Subject: Re: [OM] Why Oly is in a hole
From: "John A. Prosper" <prosper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 05:41:00 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 17 Jul 1998 Wijsmuller.VanderBel@xxxxxx wrote:

|Hans (VELUWEH@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
|
|> The latter is very true indeed, but although the 2-13 may already be
|> mounted in a new 3-Ti (why not in 4-Ti's, Olympus???), the "2" series
|> of focusing screens certainly are not specifically designed for this
|> camera - remember they fit and work without restrictions in the 2Sp, 3,
|> 4 and 4Ti too. So the real upgrade was indeed to the System, not to
|> this specific camera.
|
|And I doubt this upgrade was a real 'innovation' at its time, because 
|in a brochure for the OM-10, 20 (G) and 30 (F) I found that the OM-20 
|is equiped with a 'fine lumicron' extra bright focussing screen.
|
|I assume this means that the OM-20 actually has a '2' series 
|focussing screen aboard, maybe John Hermanson has a serial number 
|clue?
|
|Now this makes me wonder what the reason was for Olympus to come with 
|the '2' series screens relatively long after the OM-20 was  
|introduced?

This was probably just a competitive upgrade since the other
major competitors (Nikon, Canon. etc.) also had released
their own '2-series' equivalent screens.


|Three ideas (and more welcome ;-):
|
|Maybe they finally get rid of the major part of their stock of 1-4 
|and 1-13 screens?
|
|These kind of 'innovations' are kept in stock, until needed to get 
|the markets attention (when the sales of the remaining lenses and 
|accessories drop under a certain level and it is needed to boost 
|sales, otherwise they'll never get rid of them ;-). How about a very 
|compact winder operating on a small lithium cell, a powerfull F 
|flash, a wireless remote control, etc?
|
|And my best guess: Mr. Maitani, getting older and with diminishing 
|eye-sight, just ordered some for his own use (knowing of course that 
|the technology was available). Unfortunately when they brought 
|the old and almost forgotten focussingscreen machine (sounds good) 
|back to life the minimum amount to make in one production run was 
|10.000. So they had to market some surplus (thanks Mr. Maitani!)
|
|
|John H., I've read about the option to install a different focussing 
|screen in a OM-10, but is it's format usable in a single digit OM? 
|If so, I predict a heavy price increase in second hand heavy 
|used OM-20's (and G's of course), which without doubt will sell for 
|less than the costs of a new 2-13 screen.   ;-)
|
|
|Have fun,
|
|Frank Wijsmuller.
|
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