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Subject: [OM] Re: Point and shoot
From: "Bill Pearce" <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 19:20:39 -0500
> I can think of one P&S which we all hail as a marvel of engineering
> and usefullness--the Olympus XA.

What we on this list need is a digital version of that. Not possible.

Do I blame the camera manufacturers? No more than I blame GM and Ford for 
gambling on making gas guzzlers while the Asian manufacturers gambled on 
more efficient cars. They gambled and lost, but the camera makers were 
better gamblers. People want a hugh LCD screen because that's how they share 
photos today, and the viewfinders were so bad anyway, people got in the 
misguided habit of holding their cameras at arms-length, so that's a buck or 
so a unit saved. People want the super zooms for some reason (kids sports 
games?) that I don't entirely understand, so we get them.

It's all a matter of what the primary market wants. If someone wants the new 
Sigma P&S, they better get it soon, as I don't think it will be a big 
succcess.

Bill Pearce 


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