Is it true that Gary has also been secretly working on an OM-5
Analog/Digital Camera for the group.
Bob Winters
> From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:45:51 -0600
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, " Gary Reese" <pcacala@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [OM] Zuikostatistics 101
>
> I have to agree. I would pay for this type of information. It would save me
> money in the long run, easily paying for itself. I'm also willing to donate
> all my purchase/sale information (although some of it would be duplicates).
>
> Tell us more!
>
> Tom
>
>> Gary Reese said:
>>
>>> For nearly three years, I've
>>> recorded each and every auction for single items or standard body/lens
>>> combos on virtually everything marketed in the OM System.
>>
>>> I've also condition graded all of these individual auctions,
>>> based on all the word and picture clues the seller provided, plus coded
>>> an uncertainty level if I had more than typical doubts
>>
>>> However, I seriously question whether many folks would
>>> pay for such rigorously compiled data and a statistically valid analysis
>>> of the same.
>>
>> You . . . have . . . three years of * POPULATION * data, not just data
>> from a convenience sample?!? WITH CONDITION GRADES?!! Must . . . sit . .
>> . down (taking deep breaths, grasping onto arms of chair, feeling dizzy,
>> speaking while head is placed between knees--) Gary, you have an
>> incredibly valuable resource here. Your data should be the basis of a
>> published camera price guide, and an exceedingly accurate one at that. I
>> would gladly pay for such information, either in pre- or post-
>> publication form. Um, considering the investment of time this must have
>> taken . . . how did you pull this off? Are you funded by a third party to
>> collect this data? Do you have some kind of program that automatically
>> DLs this information? Have you (shudder) been doing it by hand? How did
>> this come about? Have you approached any publishers and told them about
>> your dataset?
>>
>>
>
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