Below are my personal feelings towards the E1 and announced acessories /
tech specs. I'm not talking about price , because what Olympus is
currently dreaming of is well above the sweet spot. Your feedback is
appreciated - as always.
Bests, Jan
- Sensor resolution is 5 megapixels
Not good enough - You will never do a professional slideshow with
pictures shot by that camera.
A scan from a single 35mm slide at 4000 dpi is more like 30 megapixels
and there are emulsions that are finer than the best scanners available
today - go figure....
- Maximum shooting rate is 3 frames per second for up to 12 frames
OM2 and above maximum shooting rate is 5 frames per second for up to 36
or even 250 frames with MD2 :-)))
- Lens Lineup
• ED 300mm, F2.8 tele (600mm)
• ED 50mm F2 macro (100mm)
• E 14~54mm, F2.8~3.5 zoom (28~108mm)
• ED 50~200mm, F2.8~3.5 zoom (100~400mm)
• E 11~22mm. F2.8~3.5 zoom (21~44mm) (available by end 2003)
A teleconverter and extension tube are also available:
• EC-14 Teleconverter
- Rear converter boosts focal length by 1.4x
• EX-25 Extension Tube
- For close-up photo shooting with ZUIKO DIGITAL 50mm macro lens to
achieve maximum image magnification of 0.98x (macro function 1:1)
Fair enough - what about below 21mm ? - What about Shift ? - What about
f1.2 50mm equivalent ? - What about bellows / auto ext. tube ?
Thanks, but I'm gonna stay with my "analogue" zuikos for the time beeing
- exposure 1/4,000 sec to 60 sec - B at max 8 Minutes
no star trails for any of us on this body (or any other D-SLR - the
sensors just don't cut it right now) - and where's 1/8.000 ?
- dual USB2.0 and IEEE1394 interfaces
Very good
- Flash Group
• FL-50 high-power flash (up to GN50) with SuperFP mode
• Ring flash (available shortly)
• Twin flash (available shortly)
Good Lineup. Hopefully multi flash capable
My Opinion: The Olympus E-System is usable at the "Prosumer" level, but
there are certain areas you will not want to go to with the E1.
Hopefully this will improve over time so that when an E2 / E3 becomes
available, the system will have matured to the level the current OM
System is at right now.
I know it's hard and in a nutshell, here's why:
The better the Image Sensors get (higher pixel rates, better density,
etc.) the more data you have to store for a single image. To achieve
current Image Quality available on 24x36mm silver based film, we are
talking somewhere between 30 and 200 Megabytes PER FRAME. In addition,
people want quick sequence capability (5 frames per second is the set
standard) and to equal what you can have with current analogue tech, you
would need to be able to stream between
30 MB x 36 frames within 7.2 seconds
200MB x 36 frames within 7.2 seconds
to your storage media. This amounts to transfer rates at the storage
media controller in between 150 MB /sec and 1 GB /sec - as far as I
know, nobody has as of yet built a cacheing raid controller and multiple
drives to fit in a D-SLR housing to sustain that data rate. Current
compact flash technology is at about 4-6 MB /sec and there's currently
not a single card that will hold 200MB x 36 frames.
I'll stay OM for the time beeing - thanks !
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