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Originally Posted by ditto1958
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Originally Posted by hartcons
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Originally Posted by ditto1958
They appear to feel the lack of a pentaprism hump on the E-300 was a mistake.
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I heard this from an Olympus rep. I like my e-300 just the way it is but I gather a lot of folks feel otherwise. |
I love mine, too, Hartcons. I just don't want them to abandon the "line." Maybe an "E-300n" or even an "E-400" would be a good idea.
If, God forbid, something should happen to my E-300, I would hate the thought that my "replacement" would need to be a plastic E-500. |
I don't think this sounds any alarm bells about abandoning the line. Quite the opposite I think. Digital cameras don't have much of a shelf life these days. There are rumours of the new 'cheap' Canon DSLR coming out soon, so a DSLR at an even cheaper price point to the E-300 seems to make sense, and making it look more like a traditional SLR would help attract the target audience who want to 'move up' to that level of photography. They need to be competitive at all levels. Just so long as there is an E-3 in the works as well, then I'm fairly confident that they're on the right track.