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Subject: [OM] Re: Still in the fold - new E1
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:44:48 -0800
May the force be with you. :-)



Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Feb 24, 2005, at 9:41 PM, Barry B. Bean wrote:

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> Long story short: Walked  into the camera shop thinking I would be 
> buying a Canon 20d and walked out with an E1.
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> Long story less long: When I had the opportunity to actually handle 
> the D70, 20D, and E1, it became clear that the 20D and the E1 were 
> professional
> cameras and the D70 was a nice body, but not in the same league. A 
> little more handling and reviewing, and I realized that if I took 
> resolution out of the p
> -:-), the E-1 was the clear choice for a guy with 25+ years and 
> thousands of dollars invested in Oly bodies and Zuiko glass. Throw in 
> the fact that the E-1
> and a 14-54 ran roughly $100 more than the 20D body, and roughly half 
> of what the 20D and a comparable zoom would run, and I was there. I 
> could run off
> another half dozen reasons, but the crux of the matter is that I'm the 
> proud owner of an E1. Woo hoo!
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> I've only had the camera for 24 hours and haven't yet had a chance to 
> shoot much more than the inside of a hotel room, but a couple of 
> things I've already
> noticed are:
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> 1) The Oly software crashed my laptop. Not sure what that's all about.
> 2) If you must have a zoom, 28-108 is a nice range (but I already 
> *need* a macro and a 300)
> 3) The interface really is intuitive
> 4) It didn't seem that big in the store next to the 20D and D70, but 
> compared with my trusty OM-4Ti, this thing is HUGE! I may have to get 
> a bigger SUV or a
> trailer just to hault it around. I can't believe I own a wonderbrick.
>
> More when I get a chance to put this thing through its paces.
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> BBB
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> Barry B. Bean
> Bean & Bean Cotton Company
> Peach Orchard, MO
> www.beancotton.com
> www.beanformissouri.org
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