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Re: [OM] E-3 versus E-1 - pictures better with E-1

Subject: Re: [OM] E-3 versus E-1 - pictures better with E-1
From: Joel Wilcox <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:16:24 -0600
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> An interesting observation on the E-3 yesterday. The school
> photographers were in and they used to be equipped with E-1's so I
> was interested to see what they were using now. They set up three
> stations and had three E-3's, one with the 12-60mm (the boss) and two
> with their old 14-54mm's. Shooting tethered to laptops.
> Obviously they are happy with Olympus but I wanted to know why they
> all had a piece of red tape on the top of the grip. To avoid
> accidentally shifting the aperture. As one said, unlike his own Canon
> 5D2 which he uses for weddings, you can't disable the front wheel and
> you can't afford accidental aperture shifts. They also reported a far
> lower rate of focus errors - almost nil in fact while the E-1 would
> misfocus about 2% of the time. When you do 2,000 portraits in a day
> and a half, you notice such things!
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Interesting.  I've never accidentally changed aperture on the E-3.
None of the rest of the narrative surprises me though.

Joel W.
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