Recent content by ricohflex

Trump imposed 46% tariff on Vietnam. OM Systems moved their camera manufacturing to Vietnam. Now they are in big trouble. Can close shop.

See, I told you. Full frame is 17 times more popular than MFT. Article on most popular sensor format Quote { From five options, full-frame took an incredible 82% of the entire vote, that's 714 out of 872 votes. That's over twelve times more than APS-C, the second most popular choice. Put...

OM system OM-3 Price SGD$2969 || Sony A7C Price SGD$2099 || Sony A7C mk2 SGS $2884 Sony A7C has 4 times bigger sensor size. The number of native Sony lenses and 3rd party lenses for E mount far exceed OM-3. OM System OM-3 is 139 x 89 x 46mm. Sony A7C is 124 x 71 x...

Let world wide market decide. What do NEW buyers think. Wait and see. Die hard fans and those with sunken costs may like it. Maybe not enough to save the company.

• OMDS OM3 size Dimensions, Approx. 139.3mm(W) x 88.9mm(H) x 45.8mm(D) almost as big but sensor so small Film era OM3 Dimensions 136 × 84 × 50 mm (could take 24mm x 36mm negatives) • Name plate brand : OM System (Not Olympus) • Sensor size of OMDS OM3 : Obsolete MFT In view of...

Expect OM systems OM3 to be a failure. Like I said. Only die hard fans and those with sunken costs buy. The rest stay away. It is disappointing. OMDS is rehashing old camera parts. Zero improvement. Never dared to go full frame. So useless.

I came across a comment in dpreview.com forum which I thought was a very good summary. By a member named MK82. I will repeat his comment verbatim here. Quote { Just watched all the videos and specs. The body is E-M10 mixed to E-M5. Idea is PEN-F with OM-5. I think it is failure. Didn't see...

This junk is MFT. Priced too high. May sell to die-hard fans. May sell to those with sunken costs. Unlikely to attract many new buyers due to outclassed sensor size. They took away the manual focus clutch and made the price higher for 2 lenses. Claimed splash proof but only IPX1. OM System...

Today had lunch with friends and one of them said he will be buying Sony A7R VI which has 80MP when it comes out. He was using the Sony A7R V at the table during lunch. Consumers always want the higher spec. Whether they really need it, is not relevant to their buying decision. Thus all...

Aiyah you never read my comment at 11.18am. I said MFT. Not FT. Who in this thread does not know about FT and MFT?

I really like the film Olympus OM-1 designed by Maitani. I have a few film Olympus OM-1 camera bodies. Which I keep out of respect for the designer. I do not like the current crop of digital OM Systems mirrorless ILC. In 1973 when Maitani designed OM-1, he was not small minded about the...

Actually that was Olympus the parent company. Olympus has 40,000 employees world wide. Those people they fired in past may come from a combination of foreign and Japan-local subdivisions. But good news as Olympus Malaysia has hinted on a new model. Let us see if MFT can make it through next...

Set aside brand loyalties. Just let the camera situation evolve naturally. Camera brands will come and go. It is part & parcel of progress. Old brands die and new brands emerge. The changeover from film to digital was cataclysmic for some manufacturers. Overall, I have to say digital is a...

They say. Make or Break I think the writer misunderstood OM Systems. OM Systems was created to side step strict Japan Labour Laws. Or else it would be too costly for Olympus to wipe out its own Camera Division. The payout compensation would be too high. The deciding factor of whether OM...

From 23 Oct 2024 Credit : https://www.digitalcameraworld.com Top 50 selling combinations (body alone/with kit lens/with double kit lens) by BCN in Japan only. Can say cherry pick as they sample certain stores. Of course this statistics is manipulated. The numbers in brackets denoting...