olympus E3

[hankg]

Finally:

THEONLINEPHOTOGRAPHER.COM

Scroll down to E3 story. Permalink doesn't seem to work.

I guess we might see a pro level Leica D camera soon

[jdlaing]

Why....................yes we will.
And it will be a good one too.
Trust me.

[Riley]

there's a lot of side chat going on about the sensor
said to be a Trine FFT (Full Frame Transfer) CCD
and this time 5 stops effective IS

some would recall MR at Luminous Landscape iterate that it was foveonesque
my feeling is the sensor is sourced from Kodak, and indeed has foveon properties and no bayer filter
well we have to wait to Oct 17 to find out i guess

[Iron Flatline]

Interesting image Riley :-)

[Riley]

shush, Im trying to hide it somewhere...

[rosuna]

The camera in the picture isn't the E3.

[ptomsu]

Originally Posted by rosuna

The camera in the picture isn't the E3.

Why not?

[rosuna]

It isn't the same camera. For instance, compare the prism.

[Riley]

Originally Posted by rosuna

The camera in the picture isn't the E3.

does seem a different shape prism, but i think its the low angle it is viewed from. It has the grip off and no lens fitted, you can see the blocky lens mount with a flat bottom, no other is like that. It cant be any other camera, notice the lack of a mode dial which all the rest have, and the crescent shape beneath the word OLYMPUS as no other model has that.

E1 on the left and E3 on the right


and the 510 with obvious mode dial

[jdlaing]

That's not the E3 on the right either.

[Riley]

its the prototype from wrotniak's site, the real E3 has only just appeared
i assume the image was compiled to highlight the differences between the two as they were known
and to perhaps induce an element of scale

[jdlaing]

The scale is very telling.
I'm glad they kept the size down and not a brick like some others.

[pelikan1931]

Olympus E-1 successor on 17th October: Digital Photography Review

[lemalk]

They sound very promising - all the technical advances, but truth be told, I was getting used to seeing that wonderful pseudo-rangefinder look of the Digilux 2 and 3.

Here's hoping PanaLeica keep their aesthetic signature alive through this new generation camera.

[mjh]

Originally Posted by lemalk

I was getting used to seeing that wonderful pseudo-rangefinder look of the Digilux 2 and 3.

According to Olympus, people were complaining that cameras like the E-300 or E-330 weren’t “real” SLRs, because they didn’t look like SLRs – somehow, a SLR needs a pentaprism or pentamirror, or it won’t be accepted.

Psychology aside, the Porro viewfinder also has the disadvantage of a third reflecting surface that makes for a darker viewfinder image.

[Riley]

Originally Posted by mjh

According to Olympus, people were complaining that cameras like the E-300 or E-330 weren’t “real” SLRs, because they didn’t look like SLRs – somehow, a SLR needs a pentaprism or pentamirror, or it won’t be accepted.

Psychology aside, the Porro viewfinder also has the disadvantage of a third reflecting surface that makes for a darker viewfinder image.

of course the E3 wont have a poro setup though
word on the pdf suggested that it would have a 1.14x finder with a glass prism
it should be the biggest and brightest since the OM cameras

[rosuna]

Trine isn't Foveon:

TRINE: The operation mechanism of a charge modulation device (CMD) imagesensor

[rosuna]

Originally Posted by Riley

of course the E3 wont have a poro setup though
word on the pdf suggested that it would have a 1.14x finder with a glass prism
it should be the biggest and brightest since the OM cameras

Are you sure about this? The 4/3 format is very small. It is 3,8 times smaller than 35mm format. On the other hand, the OM had one of the best viewfinders of any reflex camera (gorgeus).

[Riley]

MR over at luminous Landscape actually said 'foveonesque'
foveon is CMOS, but this is a CCD, and i suspect its Kodak technology

[rosuna]

Originally Posted by rosuna

Trine isn't Foveon:

TRINE: The operation mechanism of a charge modulation device (CMD) imagesensor

That is a link to the original "TRINE" patent of Olympus.