Indeed - many school photos around here used E-1’s for that reason. Shouldn’t
be too hard to sell off - I often sell elderly digital SLR’s to teenagers who
want to try ‘the real thing’. Or I might keep it as a shop portrait camera.
Incredibly solid build and weather resistant too.
Original 5D - got one of those too, plus a 10D (my first digital SLR). :-)
Andrew Fildes
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> On 4 Nov 2015, at 3:52 am, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Andrew, welcome back to the list of absurd continuity.
>
> Over the past year I've been "gifted" an E-1 and and E-3. The E-1 is
> still such an amazing camera. When it comes to colors, skintones, and
> general image "roundness", there is no equal. I've gone back to
> reprocessing images taken 10 years ago and am always amazed at just
> how much abuse those ORF files can take.
>
> I'm keeping my eyes on the lookout for a 14-54 Mk2 lens. I had sold my
> Mk1 when I got the Leica 14-50 and have regretted it ever since. The
> Mk2 is substantially improved in three specific areas of interest to
> me: The focus mechanism is faster, the lens is brighter at mid-zoom
> settings and Olympus fixed one of the two crossover points in the zoom
> range where the image would flatten out. They also corrected the
> coloring a touch too, but that is a minor change given the extreme
> adjustments available to us in Lightroom.
>
> Of the digital era, I consider only four cameras as true "classics":
> The Fujifilm S3, Canon 5D, Olympus E-1 and the Panasonic L1.
>
> AG Schnozz
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