Is your test available online, Andrew, it sounds an interesting read?
And I assume you mean the ZD 50/2 Macro, rather than the ON 50/2??
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Piers
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Andrew Fildes
Sent: 09 November 2005 10:58
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: New E-500 Review
He's made one murkocentric error - the test unit I just sent back was the SE
kit - it came with the 17.5-45mm lens. Not impressed with the lens - very
light and cheap and not as sharp as the 14-45mm. I did a fast comparison of
both of them against the 50/2 macro - unfair, I know, but have you ANY idea
how much better the 50mm was?! Seems like they halved the cost from the
14-54mm to the 14-45mm and have halved it again for the new one.
Frankly I had trouble with the camera - it made me realise just how
forgiving the CMOS chip in my 10D is. I was constantly reaching for the
exposure compensation button. With the cheap lens it felt light and
unbalanced and the new design looked much the same on the shelf as the
competition - dull. I liked the E-300 design, iconoclast that I am. I didn't
think the new fider too bad but the display list on the right side is not
too easy to read or even remember - doesn't make its presence felt. I like a
nice big bright reminder that I'm about to make a mistake.
My cousin and I also did a noise comparison down in the farm shed- all ISO
settings in RAW on 1 second exposures. 200 fine, 400 quite good, 800 needs
post processing and 1600 is not really acceptable at
A4 size, even with de-noising. I'll put my efforts up on my pBase page soon.
I am now playing with the tiny Ricoh GR-Digital and it is really something.
Details supplied to gear heads and gadget tragics on request. You'll want
this!
AndrewF
On 09/11/2005, at 5:12 PM, Winsor Crosby wrote:
> Jeff Keller's review is up:
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