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Re: [OM] RANT: Sample images taken with EP-1

Subject: Re: [OM] RANT: Sample images taken with EP-1
From: Joel Wilcox <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:50:24 -0500
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Dawid Loubser <dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I agree. However, people the world over have been begging for primes
> from Olympus on all imaginable forums, surely they must know.
>
> If they are serious, they need to put together a set of small but
> serious fast
> primes to take on the Leica M market. Imagine how ridiculous the HUGE
> FourThirds
> Panasonic/Leica 25mm f/1.4 + adaptor will look on an E-P1. They need
> to make a
> set of small, super-quality fast primes to differentiate themselves
> from the
> corrected-in-software poor slow zooms on offer from the competition.
>

This is always such an interesting phase, as people evaluate the business
model coming into some kind of view.  The kind of lenses you describe will
be expensive.  Assuming the m4/3 bodies get some traction, it becomes
feasible perhaps to attempt to best the other two 4/3 brothers.
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