I think that it is interesting that the street retail price of the Camedia
2000
is around $1100. This is substantially less than the OM3Ti, which is for
all intents and purposes the current version of the OM1.
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Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Oly ad - Wall St. Journal
>In a message dated 5/20/99 3:49:33 PM EST, tlee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
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><< I am a dinosaur. >>
>
>Reading your posting I wasn't sure if I should cheer or cry.
>I guess Olympus is going to relegate all of us OMers to the laughable
>nostalgia department soon. That is, only _after_ they run out of OM-3s and
>-4Ts. (I'm sure they'll accept our $1500 if we want to buy a -3 in the near
>future though.)
>Interesting that even though they're using it in a nostalgic context, it IS
>the OM system that they're referring to as having been popular.
>I guess they don't listen to what their own ad is saying and are abandoning
>it for "filmless".
> " ...the times they are a changin'...."
>
>George S.
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