Enjoy your new camera Skip! I'm looking forward to hearing your impression
of its handling from the point of view of an experienced OM user and, of
course, to seeing some of the results you get from it (sharply focussed I
hope!)
Cheers,
Duncan.
At 21:53 11.03.04, you 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.
>
>Wish me luck,
>
>Skip
>skipwilliams at pobox.com
>
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