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Re: [OM] Olympus - no digital plans for OM series

Subject: Re: [OM] Olympus - no digital plans for OM series
From: frieder.faig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 15:11:42 +0200
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:30:37PM -0500, Paul D. Farrar wrote:
> At 09:14 AM 8/30/00 +0000, you wrote:

> 
> It seems to me that the time is right for a new digital system camera,
> designed from the start as a pure digital system, just as Nikon F, OM-1, and
> Maxxum AF were right for their times and left everyone else playing catchup.
> Whoever builds that camera would get a huge jump on the market. I'm
> surprised Olympus hasn't tried...yet.
> 
> Paul
> >
Today I`ve seen a anouncement for a the new Contax N1 Camera. 
contax goes to AF! with a new (incompatible?) N-Lens-mount.
They justify this step, because they will introduce a digital 
camera-body in 2001 wich will be compatilbe to the new lens-line.

Seem` s they want to jump in that marked.  

> >>I'm still hoping for (one day !!) a replacement back 
> >>for my OM bodies that incorporates a 24x36mm CCD array that is 
> >>located where the film pressure plate goes. 

That` what I`d like to have for my Camera`s too.

Frieder Faig 

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