Olympus interview at IR: “PEN-F sales almost met our expectations”

Imaging Resoruce interviewed Shigemi Sugimoto, Head of Imaging Business Unit, Olympus Corp. Here are some of the key take aways:

E-M1II sales:

“Talking about the domestic market (Japan), we found that many users have been switching to E-M1 Mark II from the other brands, beyond our expectation.”

MFT vs Full Frame:

“For a full frame mirrorless camera, even if they have a smaller body, its overall size will be increased when putting on the lenses. For that reason, we can say that our product is smaller as an overall system, among the mirrorless products in the market.”

PEN-F sales:

“The selling situation has almost meet our expectation.”

Relationship between medical and imaging business:

The [fruits of] the technology are utilized in the imaging sector first, then it’s taken in the medical sector to use, because the life cycle of the medical applications are longer than the imaging ones. So initially we start our investment in the imaging sector, then hand it over to the medical sector.

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