[filmscanners] Re: film and scanning vs digital photography

2007-07-06 Thread Berry Ives
Just a detail, Rob, but the Oly E-1 has a weather-sealed magnesium body. It's quite solid. I don't know if any of their other models have the magnesium body, or if that feature is reserved for their pro line. Berry On 7/5/07 8:52 PM, "R.Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 5, 2007, a

[filmscanners] Re: film and scanning vs digital photography

2007-07-06 Thread R. Jackson
Yeah, I had an E-1. I actually gave it to a friend of mine last year and he's enjoying it. They've just taken so long replacing it that there's really no choice in a high-end E model right now, though the leaked document about the E-1 replacement looks promising. -Rob On Jul 6, 2007, at 7:00 AM,

[filmscanners] Re: film and scanning vs digital photography

2007-07-06 Thread James L. Sims
Art, Well, we've sort of done that with digital cameras. They have also put my old Pentax cameras out of service, and after all the work I did fabricating a pressure plate that kept the film reasonably flat. At my age, I'm also an advocate of image stabilization - I'm taking sharp pictures,

[filmscanners] Good deal on nice digicam

2007-07-06 Thread Arthur Entlich
;-) Since you mentioned image stabilization, I though I'd give a heads up on a potential buying opportunity that probably won't last long, for people looking for a great digicam who are spoiled on DSLRs, in terms of design and features, but who want to have a fairly small and lightweight substitu