HNCD! I look forward to your comments as you start using it regularly. Jeffery
On Oct 21, 2010, at 1:36 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > I pulled the trigger and bought a new camera today. Sorry, it isn't a Pentax. > > I usually don't buy anything new right out of the gate. Particularly > pro-class cameras ... I usually wait until they get well into the > market, until the issues and workarounds are known, until the prices > drop a little bit. I usually wait until my image processing tools can > handle their raw files. > > The Olympus E-5 manual is in front of me. The battery is charged, the > 50 Macro is on the body, a card is in the slot. > > I'd put in an order for one yesterday on Amazon but their vendors had > already sold out the first shipment. No biggie, I'm patient. Today, > the local store called and said, "We have one for you." I went up to > see it, dickered a little on the price (sales tax here would be almost > $160), we came to an agreement discounting the price, and I took it > home. > > First very raw impression: I did the Right Thing. Since I'm fully > setup with all the FourThirds pro-grade lenses, flash and accessories > I need, it only made sense to keep going and get a current pro-grade > body. I'd planned to buy an E-3 when the E-5 came out, take advantage > of the usual dip in prices. But when I read the spec, the E-5 had all > the right improvements for my needs. It feels great in my hands, I > like the control layout and menus, the viewfinder is superb. It's very > responsive, and pretty darn quiet in operation. The rest ... well, I'm > only a few pages into the manual as yet. There's a lot in here. > > I hope Adobe hurries up with DNG Converter/Camera Raw and Lightroom > upgrades. I need to book some work and let this beastie pay for > itself. :-) > > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
