I tend to agree with your assessment. I'm a 'big spender', having bought a
new 35-80/2.8 and an E20, but compared to my OM purchases as a whole, that's
not much.
Tom
From: "Winsor Crosby" > How many of this "big group of potential buyers"
have rushed to buy
> an OM3T(up to $1600 in the latest B&H catalog) or 35-80/2.8? Maybe 2
> or 3 percent of OM users? I don't know but I would say that Olympus
> would look at OM users and used camera auction bottom feeders as a
> dead market. The most you might get would be a cheap digital cam
> with multiple nameplates and mounts from some maker like Cosina. And
> apparently Cosina's effort in that nondigital area has not been too
> successful. It is the economic interest of Olympus to lure you into
> spending for a new camera system not just an addition to a system you
> already have. Just hope Olympus continues to think that having the OM
> system gives them some kind of status as a serious player.
> --
> Winsor Crosby
> Long Beach, California
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