[dougjgreen]

Paul, I don't feel that Olympus should have used the OM-mount for their new system. I just believe that they should have been much more aggressive about marketing the OM-mount adapter. For the longest time, they never even officially acknowledged it's availability. I kept hearing that it was out of stock and wouldn't become available again. At the time I considered buying an E-1, about a year and a half ago, I could not get a straight answer from Olympus about the availability of the adapter - and the dealers did not have it around. (I own Zuiko lenses in 28, 50, and 70-200 focal lengths, as well as have Tamron adaptalls for other lengths such as 17mm and 90mm Macro).

The fact is, because I could not get a straight answer about this OM to 4/3 adapter, I took a pass on the system, and eventually bought a used Kodak DCS-760, which has 6 Million superb pixels, built into a Nikon F5 body. Not being sure about that adapter's availability and what features were retained when using it, and not ever seeing test results for older Zuiko glass used on the camera, was in fact the deal-breaker for me in my consideration of the E-1. The fact is, 1-2 years ago, I was in a position to buy the best < $1500 camera I could which supported either my Nikon, or my Olympus MF glass. Nikon did not support me in a timely enough fashion either (Had a D200-like camera been available then, or had the D70 or D100 supported my manual focus Nikon glass, I'd surely have gone that route). Neither Olympus nor Nikon seemed to be offerring me what I needed, so what I ended up doing was getting an older $8000 camera that, over time, had come down in price to < $1500 on the used market, that did meet my needs. Had Olympus properly marketed what they had, I very likely would have bought an E-1 about 18 months ago.