His attitude was obvious from his preview - he'd taken a set against
it and I didn't expect any more than his trying to find fault with
it. He's working in the wrong direction. Sad really because he has so
much influence. From where I stand, the deficiencies are nothing
compared to the concept and the useability of the camera.
Andrew Fildes
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On 19/03/2006, at 11:06 AM, Moose wrote:
> Phil is underwhelmed by the E-330
> <http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/olympuse330/>.
>
> I haven't read the full review yet, thought I'd post first. From his
> conclusions page, it appears that some shortcomings are significant to
> me, and largely expected.
>
> The 1.7/1.4 sec. start-up and awaken times are still not right or
> competitive. The noise tests aren't meaningful to me, as they are JPEG
> only and Oly has chosen to over suppress noise at iso 800,
> softening the
> image too much. Maybe there will be more info deeper in the comparison
> tests. In any case, looks like noise will be about like the E-300 &
> 500,
> ok, but not great.
>
> Some others don't really matter to me. All of the various carping
> about
> JPEG limitations are nothing compared to the news that Oly finally
> have
> got some card write speed for RAW files. With RAW write speed of just
> over one sec., I wouldn't be using JPEG anyway. Also, the USB 1.1
> doesn't mean much, as I use a card reader anyway.
>
> I don't think he "gets" the live view. For some, his review of this
> will
> be correct, for others, it will be the breakthrough feature. Phil
> likes
> the E-500 better. I have no interest in the 300 or 500, but am still
> intrigued by the 330.
>
> Moose
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