It's a much cooler, better designed, and well-thoughtout camera that I would
have thought possible. It's amazing all the little neat things that they did
to improve the handling of the camera. I don't really care for the little
analog dials, but if they hold up, I guess it will be OK.
Issues for me:
1. Price - $3k! I guess that an expected 10k production volume doesn't mean
low prices built in China, huh? I envision close-out or sale prices of $1750
in 12-15 months.
2. Wide angle lenses - no great options, as all RF designs lower than 28mm set
very close to the film plane, genering vignetting on the sensor. A 21 becomes
an effective 32mm lens. And the only 21's are Leica's Elmarit, CV 21/4, and
the new Zeiss Biogon (+ discontinued Kobalux 21/2.8). The CV is slow for
indoors, the others are expensive. And wider is even more of a problem, with
only the CV 15/4.5 and new Zeiss, $3800 15/2.8 available to equal a 23mm lens.
What would be nice would be a couple of digital, RF lenses, but I doubt whether
we'll see that. At least Cosina has released some D Finders, with APS-C masks,
but they cost plenty.
Skip
----- Original Message ---------------
Subject: [OM] Re: M-mount -- Luminous-Landscape RD-1 (OT)
From: "Dean Tyler" <dtyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:21:22 -0500
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Here is a review of the new Epson RD-1 for the M mount folks if you haven't
>seen it:
>
>http://luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/epson-rd1.shtml
>
>Dean
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: tom_f77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tom_f77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 11:18 AM
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] Re: OM to M-mount adapters and vice versa?
>
>
>
>Yes I suppose that does put a bit of a dampner on the idea...
>
>Sigh. I suppose I will just have to buy that R2 as well and hope it's a
>vibration problem I have with my lighter R... :-)
>
>Tom
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Hmmm indeed, that should work very well - for macro work. Nothing at all to
>lose, except for infinity focus!
>
>Don't forget that M-mount has a lens flange to film plane distance of
>27.95mm, while OM runs to 46mm.
>
>:-( ?
>
>--
>Piers
>
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