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[OM] Re: OT: E-300 in parts, and mucking about with pinhole and PC lense

Subject: [OM] Re: OT: E-300 in parts, and mucking about with pinhole and PC lenses
From: Manuel Viet <oly@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:21:53 +0200
Le mardi 25 Juillet 2006 10:46, Andrew McPhee a écrit :
> Here's a post to the Internet Directory of Camera Collectors mailing
> list (idcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) that I am also subscribed to.

> > He was scared away from further opening once he got a look at the guts. 
> >Tony Lo is NOT someone who is scared away from much when it comes to 
> >taking camera stuff apart.  
> >
> > He sent me some pictures. Here they are. http://www.stdenny.com/E300/
> >
> > I would suggest that home repairs of digital cameras will NOT be so easy
> > as those on the old mechanical ones we love so much.
> >
> > best to all from sunny and HOT Bordeaux
> >
> Tony Lo that is mentioned above has a website at http://www.loreo.com/
> that you guys may be interested in - he is thinking of making mods to DZ
> mount lenses...

Nice pictures, but what did this guy expected ? A DSLR is basically a decent 
laptop computer crammed into an SLR body, around the mechanical parts. 
Granted, you can put most of it into the film cartridge slot, but it'll be a 
tight fit anyway. I've read that flexible chips are around the corner, but 
until it reaches the production stage, DSLR will be heavy and stuffed.

I gave a try to the E-500 (don't know the US name) a couple of weeks ago, but 
there's no way I carry one around, it feels like an anvil compared to the OM 
line. The shop clerck was an Olympus nut too, and he was almost sorry to hand 
me that camera. Where's Maitani vision of an inobtrusive yet complete 
system ? I like street photography a lot, it would be like aiming a bazooka 
at people to try shooting candids with that. That plus the fact it's written 
'steal me, I'm worth a lot' everywhere on it.

-- 
Manuel Viet
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