Hey Hey if I had not just bought the venerable OM 4T last month and spend
another hundred for a CLA......and still not sold the "unused" inventory of
OM stuff I could buy mooore...But one day I just might wake up or lose
control and go digi digi digi tal.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Lawrence" <mlawrence@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 6:27 PM
Subject: RE: [OM] Camedia 5050
> > Clemente Colayco [mailto:litefoot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> > ...Still, it would be nice to buy second hand at USD 250? When,
> > after a year and a half ?
>
> Oy! Chris! Clemente! Shuuuuut-uuuup!!! <g>
>
> I gave in to temptation and bought one a couple of weeks ago. :-)
>
> FWIW, http://www.dpreview.com has reviewed it very recently (for
> some reason my browsing isn't working at the moment, but it's
> a couple of obvious clicks at the most from the main page).
>
> There *are* quite a few other reviews of the thing on the
> web that are more flattering, but for my money the review
> above is the *fairest*, warts and all. Chromatic aberration
> and noise is mentioned, and compared to other cameras. There
> are some ways to reduce these things, particularly the noise
> (the standard sharpening algorithms appear to be oversharp,
> worsening the noise - thankfully, they're reducible to "-5"
> in its terminology, or effectively "nil" in ours. It's quite
> a customisable camera in a few ways for that hoard of available
> settings).
>
> FWIW, if I'd read this review, I still would have bought the
> camera anyway, but knowing the camera, I get to say the
> review is quite fair.
>
> In a couple years time you can buy mine cheap, Clemente, and
> I'll "up-spec'" to the latest Olympus digital camera, the
> all-singing, all-dancing, Zuiko-retrofit, Maitani-designed OM-DC ;->
> (or failing that, the C*n*n 1Dsuper-S with its 1gig sensor,
> optic nerve implant and cerebral core-dump - I'll take hugely
> -detailed pictures but won't remember how to feed or "ablute"
> myself <g>)
>
> Chris, buy it. Go on. You *know* you want to. <VBE"devil's
> advocate"G>
>
> Cheers
> Marc
> Sydney, Oz
>
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