----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Wilensky" Subject: OT: Olympus OM77AF (Was: Olympus going pro)
> 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)? > Or was the OM user base so firmly wedded to manual focus that it was > doomed from the start? It flopped because it was crap compared to what it was competing against. Slow AF, poor sensitivity, no features, and the camera was butt ugly. At least thats how we saw it at the time, anyway. William Robb
