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Re: [OM] NGM Advertisements dedicated to Mr Maitani

Subject: Re: [OM] NGM Advertisements dedicated to Mr Maitani
From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:33:00 -0500
Speaking of relative size of camera companies.  One Olympus Japan employee
once said that Canon's R&D department was the size of the whole Olympus
company.

John  Hermanson
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From: "k.matsumoto" <GHA02260@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] NGM Advertisements dedicated to Mr Maitani


| > You know what I'm thinking? I'm thinking that Olympus is only
| > keeping theOM system alive while Mr. Maitani is still alive.
| > (snip) Any of the Japanese members of this list like to comment?
|
| Somebody reported to the OM BBS in Japan about what he heard from an
| Olympus employee recently at the service station:
|
| *Olympus no longer makes profit by selling OM gear.
|
| *Production lines are run only a few times a year.
|
| *They are too busy with digital cameras so they don't have enough
| manpower to develop new equipment for film SLR cameras.
|
| *They won't make a SLR wunderbrick system because the market is
| small and Olympus has to pay too much for patents.
|
| *They reproduced battery chamber lids for OM707 because so many of
| them get damaged.
|
| *They recently considered about reproducing about 5,000 prisms for
| OM-1/2 but decided not because such service will become endless and
| the cost for one prism would be about 40 USD.
|
| *They cannot quit selling OM because they feel responsibility to the
| OM users.
|
| So I hope the OM system is alive while WE are alive...
|
| kazuya matsumoto
|



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