Olympus E-3 preview

[Bo_Lorentzen]

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Probably its premature to make any judgments based on the "buzz" on dpreview or anywhere else. over the years I have seen forums deplore new cameras as a manufactures biggest mistakes ever, and then a few years later refer to them as benchmark cameras which might never be surpassed.

 

It seems to me that the only real judgment will have to be based on actual users in-hands experience. as I have a few older cameras in production (including a E1) - its my experience that Olympus ages very well, time will show how the E3 is judged.

 

That said.. I do believe that the Digilux 3 is significantly more noisy at 800 iso that the sample with the dancers. (smile) at least mine is.

 

 

Bo

[sean_reid]

Not my camera, and I know Olympus has a distinguished history, but IMHO, it's too little, too late, for too much. Compare the specs to a Pentax K10.

 

JC

 

I don't agree that the E3 is too little or too late, necessarily, but I'm in the midst of testing John's K10D and lenses right now and I must agree that both the body and lenses are impressive. Pentax is flying under the radar and some of its lenses are very compact as well - something the 4/3 system aims for but doesn't always hit. Still eager to test the E3.

 

Cheers,

 

Sean