khen lim wrote:
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> Maybe the E-3 mightn't be the model you should be aiming for then. You could
> look at the E-510 instead. While I'll eventually get the E-3, my present
> E-510 continues to surprise me. I have now used it under two rain shower
> conditions fully exposed and it hadn't failed on me at all and I'm not
> talking about drizzles here. The E-510 is commendably light; so that point
> should be fine for you.
My E-410's even lighter, and I'm very pleased with the RAW images coming
out of it. Without the IS, it's probably 100g lighter than the 510.
Not a pro-level camera, for sure, but it's a great "knockin'-around"
unit, and with a legacy Zuiko on it via adapter, almost as small as an
OM-4. I use it whilst skulking around the wilds of Calgary looking for
photo opps. If you do lots of tripod work, the 510's IS won't be of any
use to you anyways, since you're counseled by the manual to turn IS off
when using it on a tripod.
Mind you, from the start I've owned many of the very fast Zuiko primes,
so I was always willing to tolerate more weight than many other
Zuikoholics who stuck to the slower lens lines... and I *never* owned a
single fast (or even slow) Zuiko OM-System zoom. They always seemed
weird and heavy to me, with strangely-chosen focal length ranges.
Third-party zooms made most of the weight of the OM body "system" seem
the same as any other SLR system in that case, so once again, weight
wasn't usually an issue for me.
And in this modern day and age, with full-body cavity searches
practically becoming as typical as a warm "Welcome to Calgary!" when
you're going through an airport, and carry-on luggage limits dropping to
the sub-molecular, I wouldn't normally carry *any* DSLR with me on a
trip -- Crete this year was the KonicaMinolta A1 with a backup
point-'n-shoot wielded by the spousal unit, and I'll probably buy a
higher-quality PHD ("press here, dummy!") camera for future trips to
places accessible via aircraft. Inside North America, and specifically
if the trip's for photography, the kit goes in the car along with
several camera packs of various sizes and capabilities for the swapping
out of gear. Weight problem solved.
Now if only I could afford the actual travel more often...
Garth
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