Re: Olympus and others. Greater mega pixel capacity expected soon? Skinny on E-3
- From: Alienjones <Alienjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:02:29 +1000
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| I use an E-510 and like it a lot for my needs but am thinking of a
| second body to have two different zooms availably quickly without the
| need to change lens. The E-3 seems to have some real advantages but is
| pricey.
|
| 2 questions:
|
| Do any of you here have extensive experiance with the E-3 and your
| opinion of it.
|
| Are there expected increases in mega pixel capacity any time soon for
| Olympus or others?
|
| Thanks for any info.
|
| Charlie
Olympus are in a partnership with Panasonic. That partnership has
Panasonic making P&S cameras for Olympus and supplying sensors for
Olympus DSLRs.
~From my experience with both brands of cameras, Olympus are not at any
time soon going to have ground breaking sensor technology. For a long
time I had considerable faith that Panasonic's experience with Pro Video
cameras would result in exceptional still camera sensors.
Too much time has passed without the substantial improvement Nikon came
out with to think the Olympasonics will never be at the level they need
to to be at to regain the reputation Olympus had with their OM1 cameras.
If I were head of the board at Olympus I'd either dump DSLRs from the
product range or embark on a horrifically expensive R&D program to
produce a 20MP sensor to rival anything Canon or Nikon will have
produced by the time it is developed.
Such events are as likely to happen as my chance of being appointed to
the board of directors! Bye bye Panasonic. The last of the handful of
FZ50sI had for Santa shoots is gone. Replaced with Nikon D60s.
My 20 year loyalty to Olympus ended with the sale of my E2 and the
introduction of Canon 10D. I never had any loyalty to Canon. Too many
out-of-the-box faults, too few fixes. My loyalty to Nikon is now
complete and at unthinkable cost (for me) of a holiday house and new
car. It wasn't so much the D3 bodies that cost so much but the lenses x6
I had to buy and the telephoto lenses. My old Canon gear didn't bring
anything like what I expected.
Second month and 5th wedding as 100% Nikon and the results are very
clearly that although I sold many personal assets and didn't upgrade my
car to change from a mixed bag of brands to one, my photographs are now
easier to obtain and my dud list reduced to well below expectations.
Compared to Olympus?
What a waste of a perfectly good opportunity Olympus had. Some of the
best lenses in the world won't overcome some of the worst cameras
they've ever made. No worse example of their mistakes than when the D300
(twin lens kit) started selling in department stores at less than 50% of
it's six months earlier RRP. They might sell a few E3s to die hard
devotees but really,
Olympus are well and truly out of contention as a supplier of
professional level cameras. I never thought I say that!
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