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Re: [OM] Digital P&S vs. OM

Subject: Re: [OM] Digital P&S vs. OM
From: "Richard F. Man" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 12:14:08 -0800
Heh, I have an Oly C-3000 (which now I guess "belongs" to my wife since I have moved back to the OMs) and I can tell you that....

I love it. It has its place. There is no denying about the instant gratification. The smallness and convenience, and yes, even the picture quality....

I took both the OM-4T and the C-3000 to take the Solstice pictures (see other post), and both produce amazing color fidelity. I use the spot mode on the OM-4T, and Sensia slide film so I know *MY* metering is good, but the auto-program exposure from the C-3000 is just about as good. Definitely anything around 8x10 or below, you can't tell much difference. The Sensia shots do got high nods due to more blue and the capturing of the subtle orange.

What made the pictures was walking around to find a good spot, compositional wise. The zoom lens, auto-whatever, do not help that at all :-)

So, I firmly believe both can exist peacefully and each has its strength and weaknesses....

At 06:19 AM 1/2/2002 -0800, you wrote:
The part that got to me was I said, "Manual Focus allows me to focus
sharply, and bring into focus what I want focused.."  and he said "I can do
that on my digital camera too!  It has a manual focus mode.."  Errr...  I
mean as if AF discussions aren't bad, he thinks his button pressing focusing
is the same quality as cranking on a good prime??
NO WAY IN HELL... his palm sized zoom lens of F5.6/8 28-105mm zoom lens with
"button manual focusing" will be the same as my OM.  Cold day in hell...

He said he will bust it out on a printer and "show me" how his images are
the "exact quality" as mine, if not better.

Errr...  no need to start and arguement with him, people like that, don't
want to know, I mean he's got the brochure for his digital camera, and it
says "as sharp as a professional film camera" and if it's printed, it must
be true right??

Albert

-...

// richard http://www.imagecraft.com
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