In the Camedia E-10 press conference on 22 August 2000, the President of Olympus, Mr Masatoshi Kishimoto gave the following remarks.
"We will stop the research on high resolution CCD." "We have been continuously developing high quality digital camera with high resolution CCD. But E-10's 4M pixels CCD is able to give very satisfactory results even in enlarged prints. I think this is the end of the high resolution CCD competition." "5M or 6M pixels are too much for consumer use. Operation, design and other added values are more important from now on." This quotation and other Olympus views on CCD development can be found at http://www.geocities.com/maitani_fan/camera_technologies.html ; scroll down to "Olympus CCD Philosophy".
