Welcome back. Nice to hear from you. I think I was still a new guy
when you left.
People have done different things in the move to digital. Some waited
until Oly went digital and then they did too, some happily using
their old lenses with an adaptor. Some went Canon lured by less
digital noise, more pixels and also to use their OM lenses with
adaptors. A few went Nikon lured by the ergonomics and hang the
little bit more noise, but I am one of these few to have stuck around.
A couple of other differences you might consider. The E-500 has a
couple more megapixels than the D50, but is a little noisier than the
D50 which has just about the least amount of digital noise of any
camera. The D50 is also a little smaller.
Check out the timings pages in the dpreview reviews as well. Off to
shot taken is 1.7 sec for the Oly and less than .1 second for the
D50. It looks like the frame rates are similar.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/olympuse500/page10.asp
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond50/page11.asp
Some people hung onto their OM stuff. I sold the special bits that
would fetch some money and kept the OM bits that were sort of
worthless from the money standpoint. But I have not used any of them
in a couple of years.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Jul 18, 2006, at 9:36 PM, Shawn Wright wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Just dropping on the list after several years absent, and glad to
> see quite a few old
> names still around, and the list still has a good home! :-)
> (you old timers might remember me... ;-)
>
> An annual pro photo camp going on at my school this week got me
> thinking about a
> new camera, and I actually played with a D50 (egads!) for a few
> minutes. We have
> several Nikon bodies (D1, D2, D70) at work, but I've never paid
> much attention to them
> to be honest. I still use an old C2500L when I need a camera at
> work and it does
> amazingly well for its age. One of my co-workers asked me to look
> into a new camera
> for her (she uses a C-2020Z or similar), and asked about the E-500.
> So I started
> looking into it, and it sounds like a decent deal for her, and
> possibly for me also.
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