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> I always wonder how the E-1 or E-3 will fare, but I guess lowly Olympus
> owners cannot afford such exotic trips.
>
I know there are a handful of Olympus owners that could and do. However, we
probably tend to do it either on our own or as part of another "professional
purpose" in the journey.
>From personal experience in putting on a workshop in a remote location, all
participants used E-1 based systems. Of our particular sampling of four,
there were no failures nor have any of us experienced as much as a hickup
before or after. And to extend this to another level, here on this list we
have far more E-1 and E-3 bodies represented than there were cameras on that
luminous-landscape trip. A friend here in Iowa had one E-3 suffer from a
broken shutter, but otherwise we've had almost a completely clear
reliability record.
One driving force behind my purchasing the E-1 was the extreme reliability
experienced during the first year and a half of general availability.
I frequently subject my E-1 to the same conditions indicated by MR of the
Antartica trip. I'm completely mystified by the failures his shipmates
experienced. I know that my E-1 is built a bit better than the average
bear, but maybe I'm a bit naive when it comes to the level of expectation I
should have in how physically capable a $3000 camera should be.
AG
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