Re: Cotty's Specification (E-1)

2008-01-26 Thread P. J. Alling
> > http://www.robertstech.com/temp/ist-Dcrash.jpg > They don't build 'em like that anymore. Mark Roberts wrote: > John Celio wrote: > > > >> The E-1 was built like a friggin' tank, people. I don't know about >> > other > >> brands (their tech reps never tried similar demonstrati

Re: Cotty's Specification (E-1)

2008-01-26 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Jan 26, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >> The E-1 was built like a friggin' tank, people. I don't know >> about other >> brands (their tech reps never tried similar demonstrations), but I >> had full >> confidence in the E-1's ability to survive just about anything. > > I forget whe

Re: Cotty's Specification (E-1)

2008-01-26 Thread Mark Roberts
John Celio wrote: >The E-1 was built like a friggin' tank, people. I don't know about other >brands (their tech reps never tried similar demonstrations), but I had full >confidence in the E-1's ability to survive just about anything. I forget where this came from, but it's a photo of an ist

Re: Cotty's Specification (E-1)

2008-01-25 Thread John Celio
> But it is not in the same class as the E-1 with respect to > basic quality. I have a story about the E-1. When it first came out, me and the other guys at Reed's were extensively trained on the camera by Olympus. Olympus was commited to selling the camera through real camera stores, not onli