Buy a Canon 1D MkII, it is a better all round camera than the 1Ds and,
anyway, the 1Ds MkII is due very soon. If you don't like the 1D MkII you'll
be able to sell with virtually no depreciation - same goes for the lenses.
Or buy an E-1 and if you don't like it and need to resell...........
My two pennies to the autofocus discussion; take a 1D MkII with macro lens,
place it in AI servo mode and follow a moving bee firing at 8.5fps. If you
can keep the centre spot on the bee the camera will keep focus.
Weight, to my mind, is an issue but the camera is well balanced and handles
very well.
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Walt Wayman
Sent: 03 August 2004 19:07
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Selling out
I just don't know. I wish I had never been inflicted with thoughts of this.
I've gone through divorces with far less confusion and indecision and not
nearly as much separation anxiety!
But weight is not really a consideration. I very seldom use an OM without
either a motor drive or a winder. I bought into the system when the OM-4
came out because of the multi-spot metering. The dimunitive size was never
really important to me. I still use, when I'm really serious about a
subject or scene, my ancient Graflex XLRFs, with those wonderful old Zeiss
and Rodenstock lenses, or my even more ancient 50-year-old Graflex Crowns
and Centuries, although with later-vintage Schneider APO Symmars, so the
weight a bulk of the big C*n*n doesn't really concern me. I don't have weak
wrists.
Choices, choices, choices. If I had been born rich instead of incredibly
handsome and intelligent, these are the kinds of decision I wouldn't have to
make, because then I could have it ALL.
Could it be that I've been possessed by some evil demon? Might I need an
exorcism?
Or has my head been turned because there's just been too much digital
puffery on the list lately?
Walt, about to have a more few beers, and then a contemplative lie-down
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message from Skip Williams : --------------
>
> Walt,
>
> The quality you could buy will be second to none, IMO. So it's not a bad
> decision, but it's quite a big one. A 1Ds and the L lenses you mention are
> quite a beast to handle unless absolutely necessary and cost a pretty
penny.
>
> I'm really confused as to why the E-1 isn't on your list. With all the
> multitude of E-System discussions over the past months, I don't remember
your
> decision process or situation, sorry. The main downsides that I see with
the
> current E-System are: lack of alternative bodies, small lens chloice, no
IS, and
> uncertainty as to the system's future. Did I miss anything? (I won't go
into
> my opinions on C/N vs. Olympus.)
>
> For me, those items were not sufficient to make me go to the dark side.
The
> lens selection covers 90% of my current needs. It does not cover fast,
short
> primes or long macro lenses, which are both coming. I love my E-1, FL50, 3
> zooms, and their performance, which is the real bottom line, right? It
produces
> great prints up to what I've tried so far, 11x14. I don't need anything
more,
> including weight, which I really do not want.
>
> Skip
>
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