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03/19/2007 04:21:04 PM · #1 |
//news.digitaltrends.com/article12431.html
One kinda looks like a viewfinder of old. Prices look
pretty good. Wonder how they'll do.
Message edited by author 2007-03-19 18:34:01.
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03/19/2007 04:38:42 PM · #2 |
Originally posted by fir3bird:
//news.digitaltrends.com/article12431.html
One kinda looks like a viewfinder of old. Prices look
pretty good. Wonder how they'll do. |
The still image camera market is especially cutthroat and a lot of well known camera names of old have long since fallen by the wayside.
Can a newcomer make it? Maybe. Maybe not. Since the president of this 'newcomer' was the president of Olympus, one of the fallen, it is doubtful. But stranger things have happened. :)
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03/19/2007 04:40:55 PM · #3 |
| Olympus is alive and well... |
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03/19/2007 04:47:33 PM · #4 |
| You have to admire the chutzpah of GE to enter the P&S market now, when the high margins have all but evaporated and there's nothing left but volume to drive profits. Still, if anyone can pull off a success, GE probably can. Their tremendous experience in driving down costs in the supply chain will do them in good stead here. They also have the technology portfolio to support this endeavor. I wouldn't count them out. I do scratch my head over the timing of the decision, and I really do wonder what they see in that market that makes it attractive enough to jump into as a start-up? |
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03/19/2007 04:56:20 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by lament:
Olympus is alive and well... |
There are always dissenters. :)
Look and you will see that out of about 50,000 DPCers there isn't a single owner of a newer model Olympus digital camera. The owners are a mixel bag of older model Olympus camera, the largest has a 3.2 megapixel CCD.
Not to says that DPCers are the end all of the digital camera world, but I suggest that as a group they represent what is an is not 'alive and well' in the digital camera world. Olympus is not among them. Olympus still exists and has offerings but they are not selling well.
Olympus used to be a standout brand of camera. It isn't any longer.
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03/19/2007 05:02:36 PM · #6 |
My Olympus doesn't count for something?
E500 |
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03/19/2007 05:07:15 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by annasense:
My Olympus doesn't count for something?
E500 |
It does! I did not see it in the list of Olympus cameras. I will have to go back and see why. :)
Perhaps if I'd learn to read it would help. LOL!!!
Olympus has more individual camera offerings on DPC than both Canon and Nikon combined, though most of them are very, very low end. The EVOLT-E500 is the most popular higher end Olympus camera at DPC with about 300 owners.
Overall there might be 2,000 Olympus owners at DPC. That compares with
7-8,000 Nikon owners and 15,000+ Canon users (and far more of them are higher end cameras than Olympus at DPC)
I stand corrected. Olympus is still hanging in there and certainly qualifies as being alive and well.
My appologies to any Olympus users who I might have offended.
Message edited by author 2007-03-19 17:28:58.
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03/19/2007 05:14:03 PM · #8 |
digitaltrends
click fix
I have a lot of GE stuff...... stove, fridge, credit card. Now they
offer a still camera. I wonder if they will take my credit card. |
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03/19/2007 05:20:05 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by stdavidson:
Originally posted by annasense:
My Olympus doesn't count for something?
E500 |
It does! I did not see it in the list of Olympus cameras. I will have to go back and see why. :) |
whew. ;) almost had me in tears for a sec... |
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03/19/2007 05:24:46 PM · #10 |
I don't know about you, but that new Oly P& S with 18X optical zoom and dual IS is looking like a fun gadget camera to have. And it is even more enticing to me cause it looks like a camera and not one of those retangular boxes like my oly C750.
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03/19/2007 06:06:27 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by stdavidson:
Originally posted by lament:
Olympus is alive and well... |
There are always dissenters. :)
Look and you will see that out of about 50,000 DPCers there isn't a single owner of a newer model Olympus digital camera. The owners are a mixel bag of older model Olympus camera, the largest has a 3.2 megapixel CCD.
Not to says that DPCers are the end all of the digital camera world, but I suggest that as a group they represent what is an is not 'alive and well' in the digital camera world. Olympus is not among them. Olympus still exists and has offerings but they are not selling well.
Olympus used to be a standout brand of camera. It isn't any longer. |
Model MP Owners
Olympus E-400 10 2
Olympus Stylus 800 Digital 8 15
Olympus E-300 EVOLT 8 169
Olympus E-500 EVOLT 8 306
Olympus Stylus 810 8 5
Olympus C-8080 8 134
Olympus SP-350 8 29
Olympus E-330 EVOLT 7.5 11
Olympus C-70 / C-7000 Zoom 7.1 48
Olympus SP-310 7.1 15
Olympus SP-510 UZ 7.1 5
Olympus C-7070 7.1 39
Olympus Stylus 720SW 7.1 17
Olympus MJU 700 7.1 6
Olympus SP-320 7.1 5
Olympus C-60 Zoom 6.1 48
Olympus FE-140 6 5
Olympus Stylus 600 Digital 6 17
Olympus SP-700 6 6
Olympus FE-180 6 5
Olympus MJU 600 6 4
Olympus SP-500UZ 6 45
Olympus FE-120 6 7
Olympus C-55Z 5.3 5
Olympus D-435 5.1 5
Olympus Stylus 500 Digital 5 17
Olympus FE-110 5 11
Olympus C-5000Z 5 69
Olympus C-5500SZ 5 12
Olympus E-20N 5 45
Olympus IR300 5 4
Olympus E-1 5 85
Olympus C-5050Z 5 314
Olympus D-595Z 5 8
Olympus FE-115 5 8
Olympus C-5060WZ 5 109
Olympus FE-150 5 3
Olympus C-50Z 5 61
Olympus MJU 500 5 2
Olympus E-20P 4.95 35
Olympus E-20 4.92 86
Olympus C-770UZ 4 63
Olympus C-4100Z 4 4
Olympus MJU 410 4 9
Olympus C-470 4 0
Olympus FE-100 4 11
Olympus MJU 400 4 19
Olympus Stylus 400 Digital 4 65
Olympus D-590 Zoom 4 1
Olympus C-460Z 4 12
Olympus D-40 4 15
Olympus D-580Z / X-400 4 46
Olympus D-40Z 4 22
Olympus C-170 4 4
Olympus C-450Z 4 15
Olympus C-4000Z 4 270
Olympus C-765UZ 4 99
Olympus C-755UZ 4 6
Olympus D-425 4 6
Olympus Stylus 410 4 20
Olympus D-545 Zoom 4 12
Olympus C-750UZ 4 221
Olympus IR500 4 5
Olympus ยต-20 4 9
Olympus D-565Z 4 2
Total Owners 2758
Okay, so it's not Nikon or Canon. But it's a decent representation and showing. Not quite dead yet. They're feeling better.
Message edited by author 2007-03-19 18:07:19. |
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07/30/2007 02:59:01 PM · #12 |
| Looks like the GE cameras have arrived. Interesting. |
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07/30/2007 04:02:25 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
You have to admire the chutzpah of GE to enter the P&S ... |
I've always entered with a P&S ... : )
(see below)
Originally posted by theSaj:
Total Owners 2758
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Olympus D490Z
Didn't see mine on the list -- I'm still submitting entries with it. |
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07/30/2007 04:04:05 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by kirbic:
You have to admire the chutzpah of GE to enter the P&S ... |
I've always entered with a P&S ... : )
(see below)
Originally posted by theSaj:
Total Owners 2758
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Olympus D490Z
Didn't see mine on the list -- I'm still submitting entries with it. |
So, are you the person behind this new venture?? The name is a bit too close to yours!! :) |
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