As I said a couple of months ago, when you buy digital you lose half your
money in less than three years. So, better just wait and buy this digital
wonder later.
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From: "Hughes" <hi100@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus List" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:58 PM
Subject: [OM] OT: Falling Digi Prices,"4/3" lenses
> Apologies for digi-content :
> Interesting how the prices of interchangeable lens, digi cameras are
dropping:
>
> Cannon rebel ~$900: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1268052,00.asp
> +$100 with cheap zoom
> Sigma SD9 ~$840
>
> The cheap Cannon is interesting, in that they use a new digi lens with
reduced coverage (1.6x)
> (ala Oly 4/3 format) which protrudes back into the old style lens mount.
The mirror is then on
> some mechanism (parrallelogram ?) and gets retracted when it fires rather
than flipping up. The
> Cannon has stripped out the flexible options so they can upsell the PRO
version.
>
> The new pricing is going to put pressure on used E10/20. These should be
available soon at v good
> prices.
> Tim Hughes
>
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