Comments on: Amarcord: Olympus 35 RD.

By: TheEye

TheEye — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:29:10 +0000

Han’g in their!

By: TheEye

TheEye — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:28:27 +0000

Together we are even-steven.

My FL36 R also failed without good reason. Oly never told me what was broken, but they charged me $120 for fixing it. A bit odd…

By: whiskybravo (bean5y)

whiskybravo (bean5y) — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:42:15 +0000

Tell me about it! I spelled “know” as “no”. I can’t change it and it’s killing me.

By: amalric

amalric — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:54:18 +0000

Yes, I think you have it right. At some point Japanese EVIL cameras, being always more expensive will attempt a more durable incarnation, like Fuji is attempting.

The threshold will be around 1200 $ I expect since Thom or other analysts are predicting a FF for 1500 $ in a couple of yrs.

Will we have sensors with diminishing returns? Of that I am less sure. See the snippet about the German chip with 50 times the light sensitivity of today’s sensors.

It is true too that I am, perhaps we are, reaching the point of ‘good enough’ with m4/3 – I haven’t been buying for a year, and my worry is more about how long plastic lenses will last.

This must have been understood by Oly and Fuji, who are offering metal lenses, albeit at a price.

By: hillin

hillin — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:31:40 +0000

Agree, the construct quality of Olympus recent products are somehow quite terrible. Many of my friends had their dial dropped off.