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Is E-510 the most popular Oly ever?

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Adam-T said:
The 410 is from what I can tell being outsold by the 510 here, even
at the high current prices (not as ludicrous as the 330 and 400
were however - they really WERE priced to sell Canons and Nikons)
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Yes, I totally agree. Oly pricing has always been totally beyond me. They just want to make money off of fanboys/girls, and the rest of the world waits till the price drops to 1/3rd to buy from cameta. Fortunately, they didn't do it this time :-)
Adam-T said:
but when the price of it drops to sensible level (read the current
E400 / D40X price) then it'll fly off the shelves. I think the 510
is the most important DSLR for Oly since the E1 but it still reeks
of "Wannabe K10D / A100", the 410 is the Real desirable one though
and IMO the "True Oly" of the pair......
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E-410 is a remarkable camera, too bad I didn't like the handling. A little more grip like my C-5060, and I'd have taken it home instead of E-510, which is nice, but looks wise, just another dSLR and a bit too big for my liking. The IS is probably good, but I could live without it.
 
Rexian said:
Adam-T said:
The 410 is from what I can tell being outsold by the 510 here, even
at the high current prices (not as ludicrous as the 330 and 400
were however - they really WERE priced to sell Canons and Nikons)
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Yes, I totally agree. Oly pricing has always been totally beyond
me. They just want to make money off of fanboys/girls, and the rest
of the world waits till the price drops to 1/3rd to buy from
cameta. Fortunately, they didn't do it this time :-)
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I don't believe Olympus is artificially keeping the price high and gouging their loyal customers -- you don't get market share this way. What's been holding them back is economics of scale.

If they sold 10x the number of cameras and lenses as they do today, they could get away with making a smaller profit on each and this get back their R&D and manufacturing costs.
 
510 sales will be big
maybe too big

check out those Japan stats on 510 sales, pre-release
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Riley

I like to think the bs can never be higher than the ah
 
There are still more E-500's out ther but by the end of the year probably more E-510. Remember DSLR's don't get disposed of so(sold hanged down etc.) E-500 will sitll be there in large numbers for a whiloe.

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Collin
 
Digilux44 said:
It has nothing to do with volts, but what you thin of Amps ???
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But then shouldn't the HLD-3 have more effect on the E-300, since it would be 7.2v at 3000mAh? But then again, maybe the E-300 isn't designed to take advantage of the extra power, or maybe it's us with the kit lenses; maybe that's where the bottleneck is.
 
Adam-T said:
I think the 510
is the most important DSLR for Oly since the E1 but it still reeks
of "Wannabe K10D / A100",
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Er, E-510 outperforms Alpha seven ways to Sunday. Alpha is a nice entry-level camera, but it's basically a me-too camera. K10D has some better specs and features and weatherproofing. But it lacks the good JPEGs straight out of camera 510 has, for instance.
Adam-T said:
the 410 is the Real desirable one though
and IMO the "True Oly" of the pair......
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I wish they didn't cripple the controls. What's funny, E-410 has basically all the controls of E-510, they are just in the menus instead of in dedicated buttons. So it's apparently just a matter of a couple of wires and a bit of program code in the firmware.

I heard there might be an improved E-410 in the works, one with dedicated buttons and weatherproofing (hopefully with better-placed strap lugs, too). I'll believe that when I see it, though.
 
vlatko said:
I wish they didn't cripple the controls. What's funny, E-410 has
basically all the controls of E-510, they are just in the menus
instead of in dedicated buttons. So it's apparently just a matter
of a couple of wires and a bit of program code in the firmware.
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Just firmware they can re-map anything to any button - the 400 was the same and it's silly ....... the advantage and likelyt reason why they didn't use the arrows for direct functions is that they're easily pressedm, especially on a 400 series, though they COULD make them press'n'Spin to cure that

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Please ignore the Typos, I'm the world's worst Typist

 
Rexian said:
I am judging by the number of new owners (myself included) here
within a month of release and price going up at the etailers (a bit
strange if you ask me).
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I don't know what happens in the other corners of the world but the E-510 kit is on the top 10 sellers -list at one of the Finland's most popular online store (verkkokauppa.com). Last time I checked the only dslr that was selling better was canon 400d kit. I don't know how long this lasts but I have never seen an olympus dslr on that list before.
Rexian said:
Also, E-410/510 probably made more people jump ship than any other
Oly body.
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Following the forums.. I have the same feeling.
  • Sampo
 
--Notice how "lowering the bar" on overall quality = increased mass market interest?

How low can it go? Will Olympus produce a DSLR for simpletons, like Nikon's D40?
Maybe they'll even produce one with a fixed 14-200mm lens?
-Rich



http://www.pbase.com/andersonrm/
 
I don't know how many OM-1 they made, but during 15 years+, it must have been quite a lot. It was without doubt one of the most popular SLRs of its time.

We'll just have to see if the E-510 will be in production long enough to beat old records. It's a different world now.

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Jorgen, my name is Jorgen
 
Too early to tell, but I had to agree with the review on DCresource reagrding the liveview. And reading all the Japanese product report, it seems there is really little imaging difference between the 510 and the 410, which is not unexpected. The IS part is comparable to similar one on Sony / Minolta and Pentax.

So I guess the market is pretty much all end up somewhat look alike. myself, the E410 is far more attractive than the E510, although I only want it for adapting good Manual focus lens ( fix focal ) for use as a decent platform.

What I see is the 410 / 510 do put the Oly back into the market with a strong presence. But I had to say the price, as some put it, ( of the system and upgrade ) had been the hurdle and likely to be so for some time

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  • Franka -
 
DSLR sales continue to grow very nicely. And this is in the main people upgrading from compacts, not "ship-jumpers". If the 510 can slice into the 400D share by a couple of percentage points, it will have done its job.

And why not? LiveView is something people can see and already understand, while all the other checkboxes are ticked (most of which people don't understand). Canon, in its complacency, is not offering anything particularly new with its entry-level line, and Nikon is equally vulnerable.

The assualt if of course dual-pronged, with the 410 providing a second pole of attraction.

It will probably be 6-12 months before we have a clear picture of how the whole thing is panning out.
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John
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cozijn/
 
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