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Who understands Olympus prices?

Started Feb 7, 2018 | Discussions thread
Soulhand Senior Member • Posts: 1,467
Re: Yes, but
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Pixnat2 wrote:

I don't know if it's a big market, but it's an interesting one for sure. Once an upgrader is caught into a system (m4/3, Fuji, etc.), he/she is likely to buy lenses, accessories and later upgrade to upper models.

That applies just as much to the smartphone upgraders.

There were about 13 million P&S cameras sold last year. There were 1.4 *billion* smartphones sold.

The P&S upgrader market is bigger only if a P&S user is 100 times more likely to consider upgrading than a smartphone user, or once upgraded will buy more lenses, other bodies than a ex-smartphone user. Personally, I don't see that.

I don't think Olympus has the ressource to release many models. This should have been the P&S upgraders attractive model, but I feel it will fail at this.

I'm with Astrotripper. The E-M10 iii is going to be more attractive to P&S upgraders. I'm just waiting for the E-M10 ii to drop more in price, then I'll get one.

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