>> Olympus jumped the boat in the late eighties, I think, but perhaps the
>> situation will change a little bit when there are no other manufacturers
>> left with manual focus lenses than the fantasy-priced Leica and
>> Contax-Zeiss lenses ?
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>
>I think there are too many options out there for Oly to make another attempt.
>You can still buy Nikon non AF lenses as well as Ricoh and a few others. I
>never thought Olympus lenses were cheaply priced either. maybe not like
>Leica/Contax, but almost as expensive....
>I just never liked the way they "dumped" the OM system, and for this reason I
>will not buy an Olympus digital camera or scanner. My way of punishing them I
>guess.
>
>They had a legend in their hands and they let it go...
Nikon non AF is o.k., but Ricoh ? They offer a rump range of lenses which
would be total unintersting without the possibility to exchange with new
and used Pentax K lenses (their electric aperture controll mechanisms are
incompatible with Pentax-A though). Fourteen years ago, the Olympus system
was cheaply priced, one main reason for me to elect this system.
Matthias
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