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Re: [OM] OM-5D for me

Subject: Re: [OM] OM-5D for me
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:09:59 -0500
A full-frame EVIL body should be fine.  It's register distance should be 
short enough to allow adapters to mount most any 35mm lens.

Chuck Norcutt

On 1/26/2012 5:35 PM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 01:56 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>>> Whatever the OM-D turns out to be it will undoubtedly be a micro 4/3
>>> camera.  That won't get me back, at least as my main shooter.
>>
>> I have my own personal list of checkboxes which are automatic filters.
>> If certain ones aren't ticked, then the decision to not buy it is
>> easy. My wife says that laundry and dishes are minimal
>> requirements--especially since it's supposed to be weather-sealed.
>>
>> Wise woman as she is, she has observed that whatever this new model
>> is, don't expect a followup model from Olympus--ever. And if another
>> one does come along, it won't be anything like this one.
>
> This is why the only thing that makes sense of the hype is that it is a
> FF EVIL system.  A m4/3 body with built-in EVF is so yesterday that they
> wouldn't waste their coyness on it.
>
> The problem for us is that we probably don't have a single lens of any
> kind that will mount, or will ever mount, on a FF EVIL body.
>
> Joel (hoping I'm right and I'm wrong) W.
>
>
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