If Olympus discontinued their OM line completely they
would get eaten alive by the 'photo press' and by
Nikon, Canon, and Minolta, which would seriously wound
their digicam sales. It's kind of sad, but the Olympus
of today is more and industrial and laboratory company
than a consumer oriented company. Still they have nice
robust sales in the P&S and digital camera sales while
the OM system is more of a prestige and symbolic
system today. Olympus doesn't make much money off of
it, but it doesn't lose much money either. Kind of a
'why not?' situation. God I wish that was otherwise,
but it is'nt. Still I love my Zuikos :)
Mark Lloyd
--- ll.clark@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> In
> <002901c171f0$cccb4d90$380afea9@xxxxxxxx.veluwen>,
> on 11/20/01 at
> 07:25 PM,
> "Hans van Veluwen" <hcvanveluwen@xxxxxxxxx> said:
>
> >Otoh they've been keeping the OM System alive for
> the last decade not
> >because they've been making so much profit from it,
> but more out of
> >loyalty towards existing users, and probably also
> to keep the name
> >Olympus Optical co. in the ranks of builders of
> serious camera
> >systems.
>
> Someone on this list [apologies; I forget who it
> was] suggested that the
> continued availability of the OM-3T and OM-4T was
> due to the influence
> of the microscope division of Olympus Optical.
> They're more familiar
> with labor-intensive small-batch production, and the
> cameras are used
> with their microcopes. This puts the motivation back
> in the
> lust-for-money camp, which I find easier to
> understand that Oly's
> "loyalty" to OM users, a sentiment which I don't
> believe they share with
> us.
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> les clark / edgewater, nj / usa
> ---------------------------------------------
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