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From: "Chuck Norcutt"
> As a sometimes wedding and event photographer I would recommend the
> Canon 20D as the best picture taking machine available in the $1500
> range. It has high resolution (8 MP), very low noise (ISO 1600 and even
> 3200 are quite usable) and exceptional low light autofocus ability. For
> an OM user it can also be adapted to OM lenses. However, any of the
> Nikons will probably better it in accuracy of TTL metering (not a Canon
> strongpoint) and the Minolta 7D will beat both of them in ergonomics.
> Despite many happy E-1 users on the Olympus list I can't recommend it
> for wedding and event photography because I consider it non-competitive
> in noise and low light autofocus. It's technologically dated at this
> point and hopefully the "E-2" will be better.
Sean Reid, a contributor for luminous landscape recently did a survey on E-1
pro user and wrote a review here:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/e1-2nd.shtml
surprisingly the largest percentage of E-1 pro user is wedding photographer,
and they quite happy with it.
Sorry if this been posted before
cheers
Radix
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