I am late on this thread but will give my 1 cents worth. I have borrwed it
from my local dealer a few times. I love it, but the write times are very
slow. I have something to compare it to; an Olympus 2100uz, which, under
the same resolution, writes much faster. In addition, the LCD on the E20 is
very poor, there is a huge difference when compared to the 2100uz. Also, no
spot autofocus on the E20, which is handy. these isuues have been bought up
on many review sites and keep me from spending the $3000 Canadian for it.
The next E model (hope there is one) should be better. It is bar far the
best digcam build wise, but my 2100, beleive it or not, just seems to run
better.
One thing that about Oly that bothers me though. Their on-line support is
horrendous!!! Why do they not offer firmware upgrades as downloads?
-Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Brokaw [mailto:jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: April 10, 2002 2:42 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] E20N review in MacWorld
on 4/9/02 7:23 PM, Winsor Crosby at wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Anyone else see the review of the E20N in the new MacWorld(May).
> They pretty much liked it, but they heartily criticized its slowness.
> They said that it took 6 seconds to boot after turning it on and
> routinely took 10 to 15 seconds to save the images, good as they said
> they were.
> --
> Winsor Crosby
> Long Beach, California
>
> *
I saw that review... the reviewer said it was slow, but I'd like to have
seen some comparison info. I can't think of any ways to speed up the write
speed except by putting in a bigger buffer or jazzing up the processor and
bus speed, both of which would be more expensive and might be
technology-limited. They did like the lens, and the feel of the all-metal
body.
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-1's, -2's, -4's, (no -3's yet) and no OM-oney...
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