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Re: [OM] Zuiko lenses on Digital Rebel

Subject: Re: [OM] Zuiko lenses on Digital Rebel
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 15:39:30 -0800
The Oly auto-focus SLR designs failed. I don't think they lost all that money and market share just to get us. They simply failed at that business. I know a guy who worked in a major camera store during that time. Boy does he hate those AF Olys. Apparently they just didn't work reliably. Anyway, Oly had no AF 35mm cameras on which to base a DSLR. Obviously a DSLR based on a mechanical stop down, non AF lens system doesn't work.

So they decided to develop a DSLR for that purpose alone, rather than adapt 35mm camera technology. Seems like the right thing for somebody to do; start a whole system designed specifically for digital.

On the other hand, this business with the MA-1 is really annoying. Why not just hand a sop to the old Zuikoholics and give us the damn adapter. At least then we'd buy a few bodies. Whatever DSLR I buy, I will at least buy one general purpose zoom with it. If it all works out, I would then slowly buy more lenses. It's not that I want to go back to stop-down metering, it's that I won't buy a whole system of lenses up front for a new system. Cost aside, I don't want to take that big a risk until I know the system has 'legs'. And Oly doesn't have a full system of lenses and accessories to sell yet anyway. My Oly bellows is stop down, why not let me use it. Stop down wouldn't be that big a deal for a lot of the photography I do, at least in the short run, and a zoom would take care of most of the other kind. I'm thinking I won't buy any DSLR unless an OM adapter is available. If I did decide to buy heavily into a different system in today's market, I think Can*n would be the sensible choice, for me.

And all that stuff about the higher resolution digital lenses doesn't really apply to the E-1, as it has an anti-alias filter to reduce that resolution. When they get to the 12mp E-3, maybe, but for now, at least the better of the OM Zuikos have at least have enough resolution.

Maybe I should just get a Nik*n 5700 or wait to see how the S*ny 828 (8mp, Zeiss T* 28-200 eq. f2-2.8) tests and wait for another round of DSLR development before diving in.

Moose

Winsor Crosby wrote:

That was something I never understood. If Nikon and Canon could carry their existing customers forward it just seemed perverse that Oly would kiss us off.




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