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Yep, Minolta and Olympus, the 'me-too' has-beens of the high end photographic world. Each company was highly innovative - IN THE 1970s AND 1980s!!!! They were each seduced and eroded by the goddess of cheap crappy p&s garbage-cams. Now, Olympus is making an attempt to market an overpriced SLR digicam system to the world, a decade after they abandoned their loyal OM series users. Now they're back - but will you be able to find lenses or get repairs for your new Olympus SLR digicam in 5 years?
I doubt it.
To say that there aren't features that make the 10D more attractive to many buyers is asinine. Many people are used to a brighter finder, and need higher FPS and a bigger buffer.
Maybe some people find the Digital Rebel to be attractive. Fine! To say that people who bought the 10D are just snobs is retarded.
I shot with my cousin's 300mm f/2.8 L IS last summer for a week. She just loaned it to me! In all my experiences with photography, a finer lens I have never used. I may have used more expensive ones, but this thing is built, a pleasure to use, and blows me away! I can't see anybody buying a Sony 828 or any other non-system digicam now. They'd be fools to forego the ability to one day mount a beastly lens on their camera.
I am still reeling at the thought that folks actually bought Xboxes. It's inevitable that anything good that appears on the Xbox will eventually be released to the PC side as well.
People are a little wary about a box that hooks up to a magical fountain of online games for good reason. Fountains like this can dry out all too easily. With a console, at least you have your CDs and stuff...
I doubt we'll see them sell many. Or, maybe the form factor / bios / whatever is conducive to hacking, and they'll die like the iOpener company did.
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Yep, Minolta and Olympus, the 'me-too' has-beens of the high end photographic world. Each company was highly innovative - IN THE 1970s AND 1980s!!!! They were each seduced and eroded by the goddess of cheap crappy p&s garbage-cams. Now, Olympus is making an attempt to market an overpriced SLR digicam system to the world, a decade after they abandoned their loyal OM series users. Now they're back - but will you be able to find lenses or get repairs for your new Olympus SLR digicam in 5 years? I doubt it.
To say that there aren't features that make the 10D more attractive to many buyers is asinine. Many people are used to a brighter finder, and need higher FPS and a bigger buffer. Maybe some people find the Digital Rebel to be attractive. Fine! To say that people who bought the 10D are just snobs is retarded.
I shot with my cousin's 300mm f/2.8 L IS last summer for a week. She just loaned it to me! In all my experiences with photography, a finer lens I have never used. I may have used more expensive ones, but this thing is built, a pleasure to use, and blows me away! I can't see anybody buying a Sony 828 or any other non-system digicam now. They'd be fools to forego the ability to one day mount a beastly lens on their camera.
I am still reeling at the thought that folks actually bought Xboxes. It's inevitable that anything good that appears on the Xbox will eventually be released to the PC side as well. People are a little wary about a box that hooks up to a magical fountain of online games for good reason. Fountains like this can dry out all too easily. With a console, at least you have your CDs and stuff... I doubt we'll see them sell many. Or, maybe the form factor / bios / whatever is conducive to hacking, and they'll die like the iOpener company did.