Joe wrote:

> Why did the Olympus OM77AF flop? I've come across the original ads 
> for it recently in Pop Photo when doing some Pentax research. It was 
> a bit ungainly looking, but didn't it share Pentax (and Nikon's) 
> vision of keeping manual-focus lenses useable on the AF bodies (with 
> focus confirmation)?


They failed for the same reason that the Canon T80 did. Both companies though that AF 
was for snapshooters who wanted auto everything and they both made cameras 
accordingly. Unfortunately, there wasn't enough P&S shooters who wanted an expensive 
SLR.

P�l

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