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[OM] Re: Erwin Puts on the E1, Four Thirds, Olympus

Subject: [OM] Re: Erwin Puts on the E1, Four Thirds, Olympus
From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 13:54:49 -0400


>
> On Fri, 27 May 2005, Winsor Crosby wrote:
>>
>> What is particularly offensive is that Olympus marketing implies that it
>> is something they invented and apply to all their lenses, designed for
>> digital from the ground up and people accept it.
>
> Why?  I remember when Olympus first published the claim that digital 
> sensors
> need digital specific lenses (i.e. telecentric) to get high quality 
> images.
> This was well before the E-1 came on the market.  Almost everyone (even on
> this list) dismissed it as merely a marketing ploy to get people to buy 
> new
> Olympus lenses rather than use perfectly good older 35mm lenses.  People
> started taking the telecentric theory seriously only after Leica published
> a similar report.  So I'd say Olympus has every right to imply that they 
> were
> the first to bring the telecentric theory to market.  After seeing the 
> results
> from the ZD 7-14mm lens, I would never want to go back to the older lens
> design.  The OM's 18mm and 21mm lenses don't even come close to the 
> results
> the ZD 7-14mm delivers.  Olympus has proven they do know what they're 
> talking
> about.
> -mark

Perhaps so, but I'd put my Nikkor 12-24 up against it without worrying too 
much. Might not be better, but I'd be shocked if it was worse.

Tom 



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