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From: "Wiliam Wagenaar"
> Hi list,
>
> I thought I would share my recent strange experience with the E-3 with
> you. Maybe one of you could shed some light on this.
>
> Last month, while in SF, I chimped the photos I just took an noticed my
> photos were not sharp at all, but very fuzzy. Shutterspeed were well
> withing range of handheld possibilities, especially since I usually seem
> to have quite a steady hand. I tried solving the problem by taking off
> the lens and reconnecting it, switching the camera off and on and even
> removing the battery and reinsertingit. Only shutting off IS did the
> trick. Without IS all photos came out normal. For the time being I
> decided to do without IS. In the evening I retried with several test,
> but the problem persisted when IS was shitched on. I decided to reser
> the camera with a factory reset. It did the trick! IS worked again. I
> did have to install all my settings back in the camera, but the problem
> has not returned since and I have taken about 1000 images without
> problem so far.
>
> Since I bought the camera in February it is still under full warranty,
> but what do you guys think? Should I send it in? I can immagine getting
> it back (after some weeks probably) without any work done on it, because
> the problem could not be reproduced.
>
I didn't see similar problem with my E-3, were you using DZ lenses. Other
than the camera itself the only possibility was a non dedicated lens used
with wrong focal length set on the camera or you have IS lens+IS on body.
> Another question for the ones to have experience with both the E-1 and
> the E-3: Is your experience too that the E-3 images look a bit softer
> than the ones on the E-1? Don't get me wrong, I really love my E-3 for
> many of it's features, but I miss the biting sharpness I experience with
> the E-1. All image settings on both cameras are set to neutral/0 and I
> only have one set of lenses, so the lenses cannot be the difference. Is
> this caused by the 10Mpix sensor vs the 5Mpix one or should I start
> making testimages to look for front/back focus problems?
>
No, my E-3 images are as sharp (in pixel level) or better than E-1's image
when the focus was right but it did has focusing problem consistantly
with 11-22 and 50-200.
C.H.Ling
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