Thanks Gary. I appreciate your encouragement and I take all these to heart.
In response to your questions, see interlacing answers below...
On 02/10/06, GFaulk7376@xxxxxxx <GFaulk7376@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Hello Khen,
>
> I'm a very infrequent poster to this list, but very interested in what you
> have written over the last few weeks. Please don't give up on us!
Actually I wouldn't Gary although truth be told, I was getting very down and
frustrated. I really was. It has been a depressing number of weeks, watching
and reading all the unflattering remarks. If anything, I might just withdraw
from contributions and just read and then forward mail to Shinju-ku, which I
have been doing for the past many days now. I do that because I do want them
to know what the Olympus users are thinking.
Like some on
> this list, I own two different brands of DSLR's. I bought into a Canon
> system
> for my daughter and an Olympus system for my use. I decided on the Oly
> system
> for me for one reason-lenses.
Thank you, Gary. We've known this all along for a long long time.
For all of us OM System users, it has been fun
> watching the Canon users reinforce what we new all along;
Really? Canon users???? I'm surprised that they are open-minded enough to
acknowledge this. Do you have reference links to this?
some of Olympus's
> wide angles are/were some of the best lenses of their type ever made. I
> feel
> Olympus is trying to do the same thing with the E System and that is build
> a
> camera system around the very highest quality optics.
Yes they are but what they're now attempting to do is to fatten up the
lower-end offerings to entice prosumer compact users to upgrade to the
E-System, where the bread and butter income is very profitable to the
company. We need this very badly.
Yes, I know, with digital
> cameras the sensor and associated electronics can make or break the
> reputation of
> a brand. I'm hoping Oly will be able to deliver 10+ MP cameras of E1
> quality.
I have every confidence that they can and will deliver, Gary.
I purchased the E 500 two lens kit several months ago and have since added
> the 7-14,11-22, and 50-200 lenses. All great, BUT, please tell anybody
> who
> will listen the 11-22 should have been a 9-18!
That's a very interesting opinion. Care to share why you said that?
Right now, the widest lens I can
> use with a polarizer is a 11mm. And finally, will Olympus's image
> stabilizer
> be lens or body based?
They actually have both solutions. I have a feeling they will hedge their
bets. Olympus has already shown - limited showing in Japan - two to three
in-lens IS. These are fairly high-grade optics and they may possibly be
displayed at some point in time. I do not believe that the E-x range will
have built-in (in-camera) IS but the E-xx are reasonably likely to have.
I have the 14-45 kit lens right now and am trying to
> decide if I should buy the Panasonic lens, the Oly 14-54, or wait for the
> Oly
> body with image stabilization.
The ZD14-54 is an excellent lens. And so is the Vario-Elmarit. I refuse to
call it a Pana lens because it is not. It is a Leitz after all. Body with
in-built IS? I can't say, Gary. We're very close now.
Hopefully, the new body will happen this decade! It will.
> Thanks again for your posts.
>
> Gary Faulkenberry
>
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