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Olympus dalliance with DSLRs over?
In rec.photo.digital Bruce wrote:
No it doesn't! It looks good for DSLRs until you realise, from Page 17, that Olympus considers Micro Four Thirds to be a digital SLR. There is no mention of Four Thirds anywhere in the document. Thanks to Page 17, all DSLR references are to *Micro* Four Thirds. Well, m4/3 is closer to a DSLR than anything else (it's at least "DSL"), and the only other option specifically mentioned in imaging is "Compact Digital cameras", which is clearly not how Olympus is positioning m4/3. "All A are B" is not the same thing as "All B are A", as most of us learned in high school math, remember? Just because "All m4/3 are DSLRs" doesn't mean "All DSLRs are m4/3." We know with good certainty that the "E-5" will be announced around Photokina this year, so the idea that they're about to drop the entire 4/3 line is, in a word, silly, and divining this from reading the tea leaves of four bullet points is doubly so. More general thoughts...this "strategic plan" is the worst kind of boardroom babble. They actually say "maximizing synergies"! "We will be admired in international society..." Oh, I see, as opposed to all those other businesses whose goal is to be despised. This is hardly unusual for business presentations, but I hope, for Olympus' sake, that this is just the handout, and there's a meatier planning document around somewhere. -- Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore. -- William Cowper, 1731 - 1800 |
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