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Originally Posted by 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).
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An interesting point made by Matsushita/Panasonic regarding 4/3ds (and no doubt reflected in Olympus) was that they were hoping to target those moving into the DSLR market without any legacy lenses. This graph shows the expected growth in this market based on Japanese DSLR consumers (more detail on
this site):
I think that's a sound marketing strategy, and together with new products like the 'live-vew' E-330 they should be more attractive to those wanting the flexibility of DSLR but don't have the legacy lenses from a film-based era.
I've only had my E-1 for around 7 months or so, and before that had a couple of OMs and a large number of OM Zuiko lenses. I also had a Canon film camera and a few reasonably good lenses. I chose Olympus not because of lenses I already had (as they would not have been suitable for a digital DSLR), but because I felt that lenses designed for the system just made a lot of sense.