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They need some independent auditing I guess.
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[quote name='Sammy' timestamp='1321606370' post='13023']
Ever darker clouds over Olympus.
[url="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/18/business/global/japanese-police-investigate-olympus.html?_r=2&ref=business?ref=hirokotabuchi"]http://www.nytimes.c...f=hirokotabuchi[/url]
$4.9 billion disappeared during years 2000-2009. Strong stuff, really.
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Apart from the moral behind all this - how were they able to survive this financially ?
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Apart from the moral behind all this - how were they able to survive this financially ?
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That is an interesting question indeed. It is also an interesting question, whether they are going to survive what is ahead of them. I assume they will be facing some heavy fines for violating various lawa, rules and regulations.
However as an Olympus user things are not all bleak, since there is Panasonic manufacturing kit for the mFT system. Stuff is reasonably compatible (apart from the different interpretation of image stabilisation). No other system offers two manufacturing companies offering cameras, lenses, else. Still I hope they can survive this.
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I feel very sorry for the Olympus engineers who have devoted their lives to producing excellent optical equipment at a good price, especially microscopes of many kinds, with cameras only part of their output. It was the bean-counting side of the company that let them down.