I bought an Olympus Stylus Epic (or Mju) P & S. Non-zoom but 4.7 oz (~130 gm)
and very pocketable. Also splash & rain proof. The 35mm 2.8 lens is very sharp.
It goes with me everywhere filled with 400 film. It has spot metering &
focusing and auto flash, exposures to 4 seconds and the program favours a fast
shutter speed over a small aperture.
Much smaller (& less capable) than the IS-... but far more portable and very
automagically capable.
(re:olympus-digest V2 #859)
On 12 Apr 99, at 1:02, olympus-digest wrote:
> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 16:54:14 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "Barry B. Bean" <bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [OM] IS-3
>
> Although the thought of exposing film without my trusty OM bodies and
> bag of lenses is a foreign concept to me, I am occasionally envious
> of my wife's ability to pick up and go with her Pentax p&s
> (IQZoom160). FWIW, she gets surprisingly (to me) good results,
> regularly publishing and displaying her photos.
>
> So I've been looking at the Olympus IS series and giving the IS-3
> some thought as a vacation/meeting/snapshot camera to use on the
> occasions when an OM and a couple of lenses are just too much to lug.
>
> What sort of results have folks gotten? How does the IS series stack
> up to the OM series? Just how portable and rugged is eh IS-3?
>
> Thanks,
>
> BBB
> - -
> B.B. Bean - Have horn, will travel
> bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Peach Orchard, MO
> http://www.beancotton.com/bbbean.shtml
>
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