Sounds like boo-hah to me, George. How does that Oly rep's theory explain
digital backs working just fine on conventional Nikon and Canon AF bodies,
not to mention Hasselblad and many LF cameras - all using the same lenses as
their film counterparts?
Never mind. Rhetorical question.
[sigh] I guess that tells us all we need to know about Olympus' intentions
for the future. Canon's rep on CompuServe works very hard to provide
accurate timely info.
Lex
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From: George Conklin <gconklin@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] Olympus - no digital plans for OM series
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:15:23 -0700
I just got back from the Seybold Convention and Expo in San Francisco. At
the Oly booth I asked about a digital body for all my Oly OM glass. The
answer was from a rep was, "Not that I know of."
"
He then went on to give a curious answer as to why not. "The OM lenses do
not work for digital imaging." He said that lenses focused images by the
rays crossing and the CD chip needed all the light beams to be coming in on
a straight axis because the pixel receptors were like a cup and the light
had to reach the bottom. The present OM lenses land the images at an
angle. I said, "Hunh???" That was about all he was able to say. I said
my undergraduate course in optics must have been under different laws of
physics. It seems to me that exact parallel beams would only exist in an
infinitely small point at the center of the image.
Maybe I shouldda gone back to another rep for a second opinion (on physics,
not a new OM).
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