Congratulations C.H.Ling,
Hope you the best with this beast! ;-)
Dave
"C.H.Ling" wrote:
>
> Just want to share the happiness with you all, I just bought the E-10
> yesterday at US$1700! What a beautiful camera! I have some small
> observation would like to share with you especially the potential E-10
> owner.
>
> Handling
>
> - The camera feel strong and rigid but not too heavy.
>
> - Zoom ring is smooth but does not have the grease damping feel. When
> zooming the focus do change but the camera adjust the focus
> automatically even in MF mode.
>
> - Focusing screen is bright but too fine, a bit difficult to focus,
> but still okay. I can see the whole screen with my glasses on.
>
> - Focusing ring works great, I think it works like OM101's power focus
> but on a better position. The focusing speed is proportion to your
> turning speed not displacement, a very good design.
>
> - Most of the setting can be set without activate the color LCD
> display, like shutter speed, aperture, white balance, +/- exposure
> comp., self timer/remote, macro, AF/MF select. This save a lots of
> battery power.
>
> - Shutter, aperture and exposure comp display on viewfinder too!
>
> - The shutter release was also received some complain for no clear
> half and full press feeling, but I do found no problem, just a few
> shots I already acustom to it and found it actually works very well. I
> have not bias but it was help by enabling the AF focus confirm sound
> signal.
>
> Performance (preliminary)
>
> - Noise of the camera is always an arguring point of the E-10, it do
> look not as smooth as many lower price DC. But the quality is
> maintained up to very low night. The noise is not shown as color cast
> like other DCs act in low light, it looks like pixels with similar
> color but different intensity, seems a bit more acceptable.
>
> - At 1x mag. on screen straight lines are not solid, looks like
> constructed with dots.
>
> - AF is very fast at any lighting condition, but some mentioned it is
> not so accurate sometimes, Need more time to find out.
>
> - The brightness capture range is very wide, in many shots there were
> rooms for highlight and shadow. But as usual, shadow area has more
> noise. You also need some level and curve adjustments before it look
> good on monitor and print.
>
> - The color of the pictures look very good, no more Disney color as
> someone has mentioned. It was reported by dpreview that the auto WB
> was not so accurate, but anyway you can fix the WB yourself, there is
> also no film that have auto WB.
>
> - The strong point light source look fine, no observable chromatic
> aberration like C2000 and Nikon 900.
>
> - The shutter time lag is very short, claimed 60mS not including AF. I
> found it really works very fast, compariable to any OM I have, there
> is also no shutter vibration.
>
> - Also, as complained by some users, the exposure is towards under. At
> the beginning, the E-10 was rate at ISO50, 100 and 200 but later it
> was changed to ISO80, 160 and 320. Was Olympus just change the rating
> without do any adjustment on the real sensitive? Will do a more detail
> checking with my light meter.
>
> I will spend some time this weekend to do more testing on it and I'm
> preparing to make a side to side comparision between the E-10 picture
> and my Zuiko 35-105 with Fuji RDP III. Also, I will output some slides
> and negatives with my film recorder and offer to the list as free
> sample prints or slides.
>
> If anyone has any question on the E-10, please feel free to email me.
>
> C.H.Ling
> chling@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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