Like so many others, I've been following all this stuff with much
interest, more than a little frustration and occasional confusion.
One day I think I'll get an E-1, another day a D300 (yes I know they
aren't comparable), another day I'm anxiously awaiting a review of the
DSC-728.
In the meantime, my simple little S110 does excellent work for casual
family and friends stuff and even some rather nice more serious images
and I just got another box of old fashioned film from B&H.
I think some of my dilemma is the age old techie's problem of fairly
evaluating what I need and properly weighting the factors in the
available tools. As with other technical areas those can be most easily
measured and understood can easily get attention out of proportion with
their actaul value in accomplishing what I want.
I take and print pics from my 2mp camera and think how important size,
weight and ease of use are and that I don't really need all that much
sensor resolution. E-1 sound's good.
Then I read stuff and think I'll be left behind with only 5mp, it just
won't be enough. And my friends may end up with bigger ones than I do,
oh no! I need something bigger, more powerful.
Then I read the comments of the pros who leave D100s for E-1s and the
color balance and exposure problems with the 10D. Then I think about how
throughly it seems Oly has addressed so many other aspects of digital
image making, exposure, color balance, a unique solution to dust on the
sensor, things that take lots of the backstage time out of making a good
pic. If you discount mpixels as most important factor, the E-1 looks
awfully good.
Oh, gosh, dpreview finally publishes their review. And Phil doesn't LOVE
it. And it doesn't resolve what he thinks it should, whatever that is (I
forget for the moment what my actaul needs may be.) And it's subject to
subtle moire and Bayer interpolation. (Do I check at what size print
these would show up? No.) Oh, it's not good enough, what will I do, what
will I do?
Moose
garyetx@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I plan to keep my OM-4ts (and a -1n) and at least some Zuikos for as long as
35 mm film is marketed (and after that I'll retire them honorably to a glass
case). But, I am going to make some conversion to digital soon for some of
my work. There are several List Members who have made a similar decision
and are still on the List. What did you decide? C*n*n, N*k*n, or Oly pro
D-SLR? Or prosumer EVF/ZLR (C*n*n G5, E-20, C-5050 et al, Sony F717, etc.)?
Or consumer digital? What did you get? Are you happy with it? Would you
do it again? What percentage of work do you shoot digital?
Gary
Gary Edwards
www.peopleplacesflight.com
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