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Originally Posted by dougjgreen
The reason Olympus' SLR system has not created a buzz, is that they made a decision NOT to leverage the OM lensmount on their 4/3 system.* It's possible to use these lenses on the Olympus DSLRs with an adapter, but Oly never encouraged this, and never widely publicized this capability.* So, unlike Canon and Nikon, and Pentax and even Minolta, they entered the DSLR market without much if any captive audience who already had an investment in their system.*
So, even if their cameras were competitive or even slightly superior to the competition, on their own, they were not compelling to any photographer who already had an investment in another system for film use.* *I certainly might have bought an E-1 a year ago* if the OM-mount adapter had been widely available.* I was already a satisfied owner of an E-10.
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Hmm, not sure about that. I use the OM lenses on an E-1, and frankly they are not as good as the current offerings.
The main reason in my view is that Oly spent a long time out of the SLR market, and so started with a clean slate which allowed them to develop a complete digital system. I personally welcome that decision, and the E-x system is really rather good and often doesn't get the attention it deserves. It's pretty popular for a new starter and seems to be growing.