On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 01:47 PM, Moose wrote:
Yes, a disturbing pair of reviews, with the E-1 and The D300/Digital
Rebel back to back. Disturbing at least if one is rooting/hoping for
Oly.
Moose
Except for the price I would not worry too much about the E-1 compared
with a D300. It will sell to a different crowd. There is a very hot
Olympus DSLR forum at dpreview.com.
With the lag time that Pop Photo has between review and publication,
it was a pre-production camera. I have been following it on the web
quite a bit and the latest pictures with the E-1 are noticeably
improved over the ones just a month or so ago. That Kodak sensor is
looking very nice. When you consider the different format(it is
slightly less wide), the pixel loss compared to the competition is just
a small bit on the ends of the frame.
From what I have read the reason for the special mount on the Canon is
not that it is for digitally designed lenses. The optional lens is
supposed to be a remounting of an old APS camera zoom design, not the
long retrofocus design Olympus says is needed for best digital
performance. Because it was designed for a thinner camera, it sticks
into the mirror box. The mirror movement had to be redesigned to avoid
hitting the back of the lens. The reason for the different mount is to
prevent its being mounted on another model Canon and wrecking the
mirror.
Canon will still nail down first because it is cheap, but there are
lots of sales to be made for everyone else. There is a rumor flying
that Konica-Minolta is readying a DSLR too.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
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