on 1/8/03 11:41 PM, R. Jackson at jackson.robert.r@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I went by the Olympus booth at MacWorld yesterday. I asked about the
> 4/3 camera to see if there was any news and the guy was surprisingly
> cagey about it. He said that they aren't supposed to talk about it yet
> and that there's no firm information from the engineers. Maybe I'm just
> overly suspicious, but this new camera smells an awful lot like
> vaporware. I've got a feeling they're at a really early stage in
> developing this product. I could be totally off-base, though. It's not
> unheard-of for big companies to be really tight-lipped until a product
> is introduced. Who expected a 17" Powerbook yesterday? ;-)
>
> -Rob
I asked the guy (at the counter with the E-20 and E-10 cameras) and he
wouldn't say anything about it. I asked if it was a month or six months or a
year and a half and he said "Soon. Sooner than you think." I didn't get the
impression of someone hiding a vapor-product. Then I asked him if it would
be like a 'digital Pen F' and he said "No. Not like that at all." as if he'd
had some actual information on a real product... So, all we have here are
some bits of suspect information, about what there was before.
I did get to handle the Canon with the 11-megapixel full-frame sensor...
quite nice, although big and heavy (!) and hard on the wallet -- it is some
$8000! -- for the body. Then you need some nice "L" lenses for a wee bit
more... I'm sticking to OM's for a while. The Canon guy said they had no
plans to make a smaller interchangeable-lens digital body (along the lines
of a digital EOS-IX or interchangable EF-mount G3) although he said the
mirror box of the EOS D-60 was based on the EOS-IX mirror box mechanism.
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
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