Denton abandoned the OM system for less-than-rational reasons, IMO. When
Olympus essentially stopped any forward OM progress, he dumped all his
stuff (and I mean everything) to buy into Contax. He's a very nice guy,
but is a definite gear-head (he must have 40 cameras in his house). I
think that he wanted to buy into a new system, and the only two MF systems
still in existance are the Contax and Leica systems, both of which have
stellar optics.
He loves his Arias though. They're not particularly rugged, but compact,
feature rich, and fit the Zeiss optics.
Skip
Original Message:
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From: Winsor Crosby wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 11:05:03 -0700
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] OM-4Ti
That sounds like very thoughtful design. I imagine that it is a very
high quality "plastic toy". What lenses do you have and do you like
using it? Get good results?
A former list member, Denton Taylor, who became upset with the lack
of support from Olympus for the OM system went to the Aria several
years ago, enthusiastically. I think he said he was keeping the OM
for his macro set up.
11 OM bodies! Wow. You have it bad.
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Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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