Something doesn't sound right with the experiences that the two of you mention.
I have also not heard of any comments on dpreview.com about slow write times
or slow autofocusing speeds or slow reviews; and those guys are pretty critical
regarding new cameras.
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>Subject: Re: [OM] Playing with an E-1
> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 19:48:24 -0500
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Odd, Stephen, that virtually no other reviewers have noticed the
>problems you did. I've shot with the D60 and the E-1, and there is
>absolutely NO discernable difference in write speed, or image review
>speed. There is no question that the E-1's autofocus - in low light -
>needs improvement; and I'd bet on that improvement being done. But I've
>now shot thousands of images with the E-1 and don't find any of the
>other problems. In fact last night I was shooting a local rock group for
>a young friend in a dimly lit club - and had no problems with any aspect
>of the E-1 performance.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephen Scharf
>Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 3:43 PM
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>Subject: [OM] Playing with an E-1
>
>
>Hi Gang,
>I was in Looking Glass at Berkeley today get buy another blower bulb
>for blowing dust off the CCD of my 1D today, and noticed the new E-1
>on the shelf. I grabbed a CF card from the briefcase, and took some
>frames with it which I will post a link to later today. The photos
>will just be snapshots, as I could only take the camera out the door
>of the store and shoot on the street in front.
>
>First impressions:
>
>Beautiful build quality, very nice weight and feel to the camera. The
>dial at the top has an interlock which you must press to go from
>Manual to Aperture or Shutter or Program priority modes. The shutter
>button fell to place nicely and had a nice feel. The shutter sound is
>quiet but discernable. The door to the CF compartment is nicely
>sealed, and has a nice positive lock on it and the door works
>smoothly. The 14-55 (I'm pretty sure that's what it was) lens
>reminded me of my C*n*n 28-135, smaller, but similar high
>quality,with a somewhat plasticky feel. I think the lens barrel is
>plastic, but I may be wrong. The inner barrel that racks out feels
>like plastic, anyway....
>
>Firing it up, the camera boots up very quickly, as fast as a Canon
>1D. Shooting in aperture priority inside the store, the camera has
>quite a bit of trouble autofocussing in room light that is somewhat
>low, but not what I would call dim. The lens would rack in and out a
>no. of times trying to find focus. It eventually did, but it took a
>while. By contrast, my 1D locks focus almost immediately in a room
>with considerably less light. Outside, things were better, the camera
>found focus pretty quickly on stationary objects. I took some panning
>photos of cars just going 25-35 mph down Telegraph Avenue, and as you
>will see in the photo when I post them, the camera had trouble
>focussing on some of them.This reminds me of the autofocus behavior
>of E-10s, where you need to trap focus manually to nail anything
>moving, even fairly slowly. The other thing notable in the few
>minutes that I used the camera was that the write times from the
>capture buffer to the card were *really* slow...I was using a
>Professional grade 24X Lexar CF card; not the fastest card I own,
>but no slouch, either, and the time I had to wait for the camera's
>red light to stop writing data to the card was notable. Again, this
>reminds me of E-10 and E-20 behavior. I used this card in my D60 and
>1D, and it gets written to way faster than the E-1 does. Also, there
>sometimes seemed to be a notable shutter lag when depressing the
>shutter even after focus-lock, like the camera was still trying to
>figure out what to do...I found this surprising given how fast the
>E-10 and E-20 shutter releases are. Lastly, there is also a notable
>lag on the image review LCD after shooting a frame. I can only think
>once again, this is due to slow I/O from the card to the camera. As
>the C*n*n 10D is this camera major competition, a comparison is worth
>mentioning. While the build quality and heft and feel of the E-1 is
>possibly a touch nicer than the 10D, the E-1 doesn't have the
>autofocus accuracy, autofocus speed, buffer to card write speed,
>image review speed or as good a controls interface as the 10D. Or for
>that matter, the resolution and image quality advantages of a CMOS
>sensor. Overall, it's a nice camera, but at a price higher than a
>C*n*n 10D, all I can say is that C*n*n has nothing to worry about.
>
>I will post photos a bit later today, and post a message here with the
>link.
>
>-Stephen.
>--
>
>
>2001 CBR600F4i - Fantastic!
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