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Re: [OM] Olympus America and Olympus Japan

Subject: Re: [OM] Olympus America and Olympus Japan
From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:56:25 -0500
Olympus stopped servicing the original 2 atleast 5 years ago.

John
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----- Original Message -----
From: GSPb <geoana@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 11:19 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Olympus America and Olympus Japan


> Hi!  Not sure that I was the intended recepitent of this message . . . .
> just wanted to let you know in case you might want to resend it to whom
ever
> it was supposed to be for!
> I was chatting with Gary Reese on the subject of Quick 310's - which is
> where you might have gotten my email . . . he mentioned you as a possible
> source for repairs of 310's - not sure I want to go that route . . . but I
> might be interested in getting an OM-2 body repaired - the 310 PROBABLY
> wiped out the flash contacts on one of my OM-2 bodies - no flash will work
> with it - and the 310 did almost literally 'go up in smoke' (part of the
> circuit board - middle one with the larger transistor got partly melted).
> Body otherwise fine (but could probably use a cleaning/lube and oil
change,
> of course).  I'm guessing that burned contacts might not be fixable w/o
> parts and OLYMPUS/America seems to deny the existance of any products
'that
> old'!!!!!
>
> George Stiles
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hermanson <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 7:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] Olympus America and Olympus Japan
>
>
> Zip disks here are  under $10 apiece but price per meg is high compared to
> discs holding gigs.  Did that make sense?
>
> John
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> Camtech / Olympus Service since 1977
> 21 South La., Huntington NY 11743-4714
> 516-424-2121
> http://www.zuiko.com
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tomoko Yamamoto <tomokoy@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Olympus List <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 8:36 PM
> Subject: [OM] Olympus America and Olympus Japan
>
>
> > Olympians (rather than Zuikoholics)!
> >
> > I had a glance at the Olympus Japan site in Japanese and I found
something
> I had
> > missed before.  Olympus Sales Company has just opened a digital service
> shop
> > next to the Olympus Plaza which is a showroom of the Olympus products
and
> where
> > the Tokyo Service Center is located.
> >
> > The new digital service shop includes large print services using the
> customer's
> > digital files, rental of Olympus digital equipment (one week rental),
and
> > digital printers available for use by customers at the shop.
> >
> > I recall Gary Schloss's post on his difficulty in getting a rental unit
> from the
> > Olympus America's service center in California.
> >
> > Olympus America's site shows the C-2500 included as a new product.  The
> C-2500
> > has not been announced by Olympus Japan.  While Olympus America is
touting
> the
> > Stylus Epic Zoom 80 CF (with a visual finder to indicate that a picture
> has been
> > taken) as an 80th anniversary commemorative model.  Olympus Japan has
not
> done
> > so.
> >
> > Olympus Japan is touting three 3.5" portable MO drives: 230MB, 640MB and
> 1.3GB.
> > The Olympus America site is only listing the 230MB MO. If Olympus
America
> did a
> > good job of marketing the MO's, it would have competed with the Zip
> drives.
> > With more people buying the digital cameras, they would need removable
> drives to
> > store their images.  While Zip drives are cheap, the Zip disks are not.
> The
> > opposite is true with the MO drives.  Short-sighted consumers buy Zip
> drives and
> > end up spending a lot of money buying the disks (myself included).
> >
> > Tomoko Yamamoto
> > mailto:tomokoy@xxxxxxxxx
> > http://www.charm.net/~tomokoy/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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