Olympus Evolt (E-300)

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"Geir Ertzgaard" <geir¾tertzgaarddotnet> wrote in message
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> Anyone tried that camera? How does it look?
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Got one for Christmas, 15th Dec to be exact.
Handles very well but I need to learn how to use dslr so will be looking at the link from David & Alfred.
I am very pleased with it. I am used to OM1 or Bronica film cameras so used to quality, this will give me quality I think when I have mastered it.
Dave

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Geir Ertzgaard <geir¾tertzgaarddotnet> wrote:

> Anyone tried that camera? How does it look?
>


Got one of these as my first real digital camera. I've used a D10 and didn't
like the interface. The results were good but the focus screen seemed small
and cluttered etc.

Haven't used this E300 a bunch yet but so far the results look very nice,
especially shot in raw mode at 100asa and processed in PS. 99% of my
shooting is daylight landscapes or macro nature shots and this seems to be
a good camera for my uses.

Still playing with software and hope OM is listening to the people bitching
about the exessive NR processing and add a feature to disable or adjust
this in a firmware update? People bitched about the noise at high ISO so
they added default noise filters, now people bitch about the noise filters?
Oh well.

The bundled zoom isn't that good and will probably hurt it in some of the
reviews if they use this lens for testing the camera. My main beefs with
the bundled lens (besides less than stellar image quality) is it's dim at
the long end, has no focus distance scale and just feels cheap (which it
is). Obviously was thown in at a price point to fit the under $1000
"prosumer" market.

I just picked up the 11-22mm (which is equal to a 22-44 on a 35mm camera)
and it's SO much nicer to use, as well as being sharper and contrastier.
Then again this lens costs almost what the whole E300 kit costs! I have the
50mm f2 macro on the way and plan on using these 2 lenses most of the time.
I should have waited till they started selling the body alone, but
couldn't.. I might get the E2 (whatever they are going to call the pro
version body that I image will be out soon with this same sensor) and maybe
sell this kit later this year.

Like I said, I like the interface and coming from manual 35mm and medformat
cameras, this one seemed the easiest for me to get used to and use. Nice
small size, lightweight, compact lenses and so far the image quality seems
very good and I'm real picky about that!

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In article <PooAd.34194$kq2.7324@twister.nyc.rr.com>, Steven Wandy
says...
> > Very tempted to grab
> > one, if it wasn't for this big unsolved issue of all current DLSRs (no
> > live preview on the LCD screen)
>
> I don't see this changing with DSLR's anytime soon as they all use (to my
> knowledge) a mirrow system similar to 35mm SLR that prevents light from
> falling on the sensor until
> the image is taken.

This has been discussed several times already. The solution is to lock
up the mirror.

> > and the slow F3.5-5.6 lens
>
> This lens is offered as the "kit" lens to keep the cost of the camera down.
> You can substitute the 14-54 MM 2.8-3.5 lens that was more or less standard
> on the E-1 if you want something faster.

Yep, but at the moment they are only offering the kit to my knowledge
and I don't want to pay for a lens I won't use.
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