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[OM] Re: DSLR problems (all of 'em)

Subject: [OM] Re: DSLR problems (all of 'em)
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:13:56 -0700
Leandro DUTRA wrote:

[snip]

>>  We've got Oly's issues with their lenses (perceived "wobble" in zooms
> 
> Can you point me to these reports?
> 
> 
>>  focusing issues
> 
> Aren't these fixed now?
> 
> 
>> bodies (quality control, incomplete water-sealing on
>>  the LCD
> 
> Would like to see these reports too.

Leandro:

Laziness prevents me from hunting down the specifics, but just go to 
dpreview and start using their search function.  You'll find a variety 
of complaints going back months on a number of aspects of the E-3 and 
Oly lenses, and a quick spelunking through some of the other forums will 
reveal a surprising number of very familiar sounding complaints from 
users of other camera systems.

It really is something of an eye-opener.

(Oh, and the LCD report on the E-3 was reinforced for me the other day 
at the pro shop visit I already mentioned previously -- one of the Oly 
specialists had just been to an Oly-sponsored song-'n-dance about some 
of the upcoming and newly-released stuff, and as part of this show the 
presenters made a great fanfare of the water-resistant nature of the 
seals on the E-3; they poured a bottle of water over an E-3, and 
promptly discovered [to their embarrassment] that water had gotten into 
the back LCD.  I coulda warned 'em, as several people on dpreview had 
already discovered this problem.)

As for your idea of going all-manual focus, I'm not sure that's such a 
good idea, particularly for the relatively smaller/dimmer viewfinders of 
the Four-Thirds System.  I could comfortably deal with manual focus when 
I was twenty years old -- now that I'm pushing fifty, AF is a godsend 
(most of the time).


Garth

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