There are rumours of as many as seven new lenses and three new bodies at PMA.
A couple of the lenses may be f/2.0, pro-spec zooms like 28-80 and 70-200
ranges (35mm equiv). There is also a full-frame fisheye on the docket, a fast
wide angle, a longer, 75-250 zoom, a fast tele macro, and more that I can't
remember.
Personally, I'll be surprised to see as many as five lenses and more than one
new body. But they really need two new bodies: an E-1 replacement, dropping
an 8MP sensor into the E-1 body, and a new, pro-spec camera with higher MP and
faster/bigger than the E-1. The 5MP E-1 is going to get slammed down pretty
hard this year without an update. No matter how good it is, size does matter
to some extent in this market.
Skip
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Subject: [OM] Re: E1 vs E300
From: "David Irisarri" <div2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:29:31 +0100
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Hi Skip,
>
>What do you mean for PMA f/2,0?
>
>Dave
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Skip Williams" <om2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 4:59 PM
>Subject: [OM] Re: E1 vs E300
>
>
>>
>> The 7-14 is currently showing a $1,800 selling price. Yikes!
>>
>> The 11-22 is a super lens, and one that I've never been sorry that I
>> bought. The 7-14 is overkill for most of us mortals. If I want more FOV
>> than a 22mm equiv, I'll put my 15mm lens on my Leica. For the number of
>> times that I'd really NEED the 7-14, it's much more cost effective.
>>
>> If you want shallow DOF, buy the 150/2.0, or one of the new PMA, f/2.0
>> zooms that have been rumoured. But the 50-200/2.8-3.5 is very nice at
>> shallow DOF, It's like a Zuiko 180/2.8 shot almost wide open, which
>> produces very nice results.
>>
>> Skip
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ---------------
>>
>> Subject: [OM] Re: E1 vs E300
>> From: Daniel Mitchell <danmitchell@xxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 10:45:27 -0700
>> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>>C.H.Ling wrote:
>>>> Of course I bought the 11-22
>>>> immediately to enjoy the fun of super wide.
>>>
>>> That's one thing that's keeping me from getting into DSLR just yet --
>>>Moose "sees in telephoto", whereas I "see in wide-angle", and so I'd be
>>>wanting to buy the 11-22 if I bought an E1/E300, but those are pretty
>>>expensive. (now, when the 7-14 comes out, that's going to be very
>>>tempting!)
>>>
>>>> I like DOF control (mostly shallow DOF), less than
>>>> 1% of my shots are at F8 or below.
>>>
>>> That's another thing -- don't you get also more DOF with smaller
>>>(digital) sensors because of the optics of it all?
>>>
>>> One thing that I've found with the Coolpix I have is that I get a lot
>>>of DOF -- which is handy for macro shots, I've taken way too many of
>>>those with my OMs where the DOF is so tiny you can't see anything -- but
>>>it's bad for portraits or isolating things against the background, and
>>>there's not really the fast lenses for that sort of thing yet. Shutter
>>>speed, sure, I like being able to dial ISO up and down if it's dark
>>>(because a grainy but sharp shot is better than a smooth but blurred
>>>shot, imho), but that's not the only thing that you get with a fast lens.
>>>
>>> -- dan
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