I'll go out on a limb and speculate that Godfrey's hands fit an E-5 better than a K-5. Godfrey is a BIG GUY! One of the big selling points of the Pentax K system is size...small, high quality prime lenses, and small bodies. Olympus is just too chunky for me to carry it around for hours.
Jeffery On Oct 21, 2010, at 5:09 PM, Jaume Lahuerta wrote: > > >>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <gdigio...@gmail.com> >> 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. >>> > > Congratulations Godfrey. > > However, I have some doubts about the 4/3 - m4/3 systems: > > For me 4/3 was about compactness: 'hey, forget those dinosaurs tied to the > film > era...'. > But I have just checked and the K-5 is smaller and lighter than the E-5... > > Maybe for this reason everybody assumes that the E-5 will be the last 4/3 > camera > and the future of this format is in the flourishing m4/3 system (and probably > the next 'pro' body will be in some sort of m4/3). > > But also, looking at the last products from Samsung and Sony, I am not also > sure > about the size advantage of m4/3 again. > And, since IQ will be always inferior at 4/3 land (as FF fanboys like to say > when bashing APS-C)...waht is the sustainable advantage of m4/3 over Sony Nex > cameras, for instance? > > Regards, > Jaume > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
