There is way too much PC'ness regarding Canon on this
board ;) Olympus OM is great! Light, small, durable,
simple to use, cheap on evilbay, Zuiko primes are just
as good as comparable prime lenses from Nikon and
Canon while usually being lighter. Only one or two
filter sizes 49 and 55 mm makes for easy
interchangability of filters. Metal lenses that last
forever if taken care of and are definitely more
durable than the plastic fantastic zooms of today.
Plenty of third party support from John H, Clint and
Ken. Overall a superb system that lets you take an SLR
around like a P&S and gives the photographer a huge
degree of freedom in taking pictures as opposed to
fiddling with dials. So keep your friend interested in
OM, I'm pretty sure he'll see a whole new side to
photography not dominated by plastic soup zooms and
billions of dials and lcd's
Mark Lloyd
--- Stephen Scharf <scharfsj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mike, I think you're right, it was a consumer level
> 28-70, not a premier zoom.
>
> Moreover, my original posting wasn't meant to be a
> scientific
> comparison of the sharpness or resolution of the two
> lenses. My
> friend Ian and I are both professional scientists,
> and he and I would
> grant that they nothing more than a simple,
> *subjective* observation.
> It was merely that Ian has seen a no. of my slides
> taken my Zuiko
> lenses and has commented a couple of times now that
> slides taken with
> his new EOS3 compatible lenses just don't look as
> sharp. Just for
> everyone's info, his stuff and mine were both taken
> hand-held. More
> to the point (which no one seems to have picked up
> on) was that I
> think he is getting interested in OM cameras and
> lenses now, having
> seen my photos. I think he is wondering why he
> bought this
> wonderbrick with the quality of photos he's seeing
> from it. He has
> one of my OM-1s and the 50 and 28, so he is going to
> do some side by
> side comparison, just for giggles. Knowing Ian's
> penchant for care in
> his experiments, while it will not be a scientific,
> objective
> laboratory test, it will prove interesting
> none-the-less.
>
> -Stephen Scharf
>
> --
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