On 3/28/2014 4:03 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
>> I'm seeing prices on the 'bay for E-P3's and E-PL3's with the kit lens
>> that look reasonably affordable. I'm not sure of the difference, but
>> the 3 seems to have gotten good reviews, and he can still get a
>> different lens or two.
>>
> <<SNIP>>
>
> I'm in a similar frame of mind. I've become very tired of the Kodak
> DX7590 that was given to me. If not for the fact that it is auto-focus (AF)
> only, it would be fine as a casual walk-around camera. But none of the
> photos I've taken with it are in what I would consider to be good focus. I
> like the size and weight, but I cannot live with this problem.
>
> I'm surprised that nobody has marketed a digital camera with
> interchangable lenses that is similar to the shape of a video camera.
There have been a couple. I don't know how they worked for folks. That there
aren't more probably shows it's not a big
market.
> Such a camerea would be fairly compact and easily made to accomodate both
> left- and right-handed photographers, and could have all the same features as
> tradionally shaped cameras.
>
> Anyway, I'd also be inerested in learning about compact digital cameras
> that would use the same lenses as the E-4x0 and E-5x0 series. I retired the
> 14-45mm lens that came with the E-500, but I would be glad to retrieve it
> from storage if I could come up with a suitable small walk-around body.
What you want doesn't, and probably won't, exist. The only way to use your 4/3
lenses on µ4/3 bodies with other than
slow to painfully slow focus is with the largish, pricy E-M1, with its PD focus
feature and adapter.
There are quite a few quite compact µ4/3 bodies, and they work well with OM
mount MF lenses and an inexpensive manual
adapter. You would probably, at least until you may decide to move to µ4/3
overall, be better off getting a decent, more
contemporary, fixed zoom lens camera. Many of them are quite capable. Go a
generation or two old, instead of 8, and you
can get something inexpensive similar to your Kodak, but with better IQ and
full user control.
Compact Moose
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