At 10:02 PM -0400 9/12/03, Johnny Johnson wrote: >At 07:10 PM 9/12/03 -0600, Berry Ives wrote: > >>I notice that there have been no comments at all on the new Olympus E-1 >>DSLR. I guess it is too early for folks to have any experience with it. >>They have an interesting take on digital, that the light hitting the chip >>should be coming in perpendicularly, and not obliquely: film grain is fine >>with oblique light, but chips are not, they say. So they built the camera >>"from the ground up" as they said, optimized for digital and not trying to >>use 35mm lenses. Anyone bought it yet? > >Hi Berry, > >It's not on the market yet. I believe the release date is a few weeks away. > >Later, >Johnny >
A person on the Leica User's Group mailing list has one; he's got connections to Olympus. Unfortunately, the pictures he's posted so far have not been of the type to enable critical examination of the benefits of the Olympus' optical designs. -- * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body