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Re: [OM] New Olys

Subject: Re: [OM] New Olys
From: ClassicVW@xxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 21:28:28 EST
Here's the main paragraph of the Photo Industry Reporter article. The new 
interchangeable-lens digital SLR *will not* use existing Olympus lenses....

I attempted to supply a link to the article at the end of the paragraph...

While Olympus expects to talk with other digital camera makers about 
standardization of lenses, it will reveal at photokina 2002 a sensationally 
new interchangeable lens digital AF SLR that uses a 4/3-inch CCD sensor, 
roughly half the size of that used by present pro digital cameras but right 
up with them in megapixels. The series of Olympus lenses, from extreme wide 
angle upwards, will not be compatible with any silver halide imaging camera 
system that can also be used with other interchangeable lens digital SLRs. It 
will be far smaller and lighter than the lenses of any other digital AF SLR. 
These exclusively digital imaging lenses, it’s predicted, will deliver equal 
or better results than can be obtained by cameras now trying to span both 
silver halide and digital imaging with one series of lenses. Since it will be 
virtually impossible for Olympus to field a complete lens system at once, 
Olympus hopes other lens makers will jump on the Olympus-mount bandwagon and 
produce optics for the new digital Olympus camera.  
    
 <A 
HREF="http://www.photoreporter.com/2001/12-01/features/the_way_it_is.html";>Click
 here: PHOTO INDUSTRY REPORTER: Issue 9 Number 21: The Way It Is by 
Herbert Keppler: What’s New in Japan? Plenty?</A> 

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