----- Original Message ----- From: "P�l Jensen" Subject: Re: Olympus going pro
> > I'm old enough to remember when the Canon EF system was released. There was no pro body. Only two amateur bodies that was in no manner better than the competition. And only 12 lenses. Utter nonsense. You need a fact checker on this one. The EOS 650 was the first of the EOS cameras. When it came out, the Minolta 7000 and Nikon 2020 were the only competition there was, and the Canon was light years ahead in terms of perfomance and style. We couldn't keep the things in stock, sometimes selling as many as 20 per week. The 650 was quickly followed by the 630, which had even better performance, and after that, they came out with a couple of forgettable models, and then the Elan and EOS 10 with it's gimmicky bar code reader, and then the EOS1. The entire line was introduced within about a year and a half, IIRC. The 650 was well enough specified to attract professionals, though AF was still new enough that the pros's didn't quite trust it, and Canon still had the F1 in the system. I have a friend who is still using a 650 and 630 semi-professionally, he has worn out the main capacitor on his flash twice, and one of his bodies has gone into the shop once for a minor repair. William Robb
