Re: 70-300mm DO IS?

Tony wrote: 
    So now we have an Olympus Preddy to go along with the Sigma troll.
    You know Olympus announced a new "now even cheaper" camera body more
than a week ago - is this the second or third attempt to get the DOA 4/3rds
idea off the ground?. In the ensuing time there has been not one mention of
it on this or the digital forum, which is a pretty good indication of how
many people are interested in buying into an anemic system based arond a
frame that is flat out too small.
   With a multiplication factor of 2 the Olympus isn't a glorified point and
shoot - it's just a point and shoot.

I suppose the thought all the "real" Photographers who understand the dimensions of "real" photographs, might have given up on forums and Usenet groups inhabited by juvenile thinking people who's best shot is to attack anyone with a different notion of what makes a good photograph or have some clear contribution to make to an otherwise load of bull***?

Perhaps that concept is a little too conservative for you Tony?

Point & shoot?
Isn't that the holy grail of a Professional sports photographer? A camera which produces a quality image that doesn't need 10% cropped off the edge to fit a newspaper or magazine's dimension constraints ...which they can just point at the action and shoot award winning shots with?

Such a feat would be a fluke with a Canon system. They introduce a Speedlite when they announce their (Cough) "state of the art" 20D which every Canon DSLR shooter knows is sorely needed. What did it do? Under expose everything by 2 stops!

Great system, this one. Lenses which can't /won't work on some bodies... Unpredictable which ones. No backwards compatibility. Battery grips that have to be recalled because the can't even design a grip that works...

Back focus tolerances a truck driver would think sloppy and let's not forget... 4 firmware patches in 9 months. Some to fix stuff ups the first ones created. *** man... They can't even write some software without botching the job and you worship them. Amazing!

Yes Tony. All us sensible Photographers who see the 4/3rd system fitting nicely with our existing 4/3 film cameras which incidently are the origin of Photography are listening to your rantings.. NOT!

--
Douglas...
I've taken the image of a Greek goddess
Her name is Olympus. Her magic is mine.
EOS is dead, long live Olympus.
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