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[OM] Re: Traitor! I got an E-1 today :-)

Subject: [OM] Re: Traitor! I got an E-1 today :-)
From: Skip Williams <om2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:34:31 -0500
No details yet.  I have to register the camera first, then find out how to get 
the adapter.

Skip

>
>Subject: [OM] Re: Traitor! I got an E-1 today  :-)
>   From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>   Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 18:29:18 -0500
>     To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>Did you get any specifics on how you actually get the MA-1?  After I got 
>the email from E-1 support telling me that the adapter would be made 
>available on March 31 I mailed them back asking them to verify that it 
>would be free and also asking how E-1 owners would actually get one.
>
>They responded to the first mail in two days.  They have yet to repsond 
>to the second one which was probably sent a week ago.
>
>Chuck Norcutt
>
>Skip Williams wrote:
>
>> Well, I finally did it.  I went over to the dark side today.  
>> 
>> I went to B&H in NYC this morning and bought an Olympus E-1 + 14-54/2.8 + 
>> FL50.  I have had too many reasons lately to need one and frankly, I was 
>> just tired of waiting.  The two things that put me over the edge were the 
>> availability of the MA-1 adapater and the downloading samples from Steve's 
>> Digicams of ISO 800 and ISO 1600 images.  I compared them to scans from Fuji 
>> Press 800, both at ISO 800 and pushed to ISO 1600.  The character of the 
>> digital noise vs. grain is different, as the digital images tend to have 
>> color bleeding.  But the "graininess" of the images was very comparable.  So 
>> my last significant objection was overwhelmed.
>> 
>> I didn't buy the high-capacity battery/grip, the 50/2 Macro, or the 
>> 50-200/2.8 yet.  That's another $2,000 that I didn't want to spend yet.  
>> Perhaps in a few weeks, as I still have some non-OM-System goodies to sell.
>> 
>> The battery is charging now and I'm going to shoot some basketball tonight 
>> as a warm-up.
>
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