Skip Williams wrote:
>Well it's obvious that Olympus used the Pen F/FT as inspiration for the finder
>system in the new E-300: Sideways-swinging mirror, porro-prism instead of a
>penta-prism....
>
>I'm not sure that I like the camera, but it's definitely heading in the right
>direction as far as offering what should sell. With the smaller lens mount,
>they've begun to take additional advantage of it's size, which is a good
>thing...........
>- USB 1.1 only vs. USB 2.0 or Firewire on E-1
>
This is the one thing that makes no sense to me. Why cripple the camera
this way? I realize they have to differentiate from the E-1, but setting
it up so buyers will be frustrated with slow downloads seems foolish to
me. This seems to me to be a camera perfectly positioned to pull people
up from the 8mp prosumer fixed lens cameras. USB 2.0 would be a selling
point for those folks. The Sony 828 already has it. Oh well, maybe
everybody will have a new PC with built in card readers.
Moose
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