Cold, hard reality sets in...

Or...I could take myself to a camera store and physically compare cameras side by side rather than worry over what a review says. That's what I did; I highly recommend it!! :))))

John

Bernard Carns wrote:
Oh shush......

Take your E-10 and your blanket back to the Olympus forum......

BC

Gourdfather wrote:
Has anyone here ever actually picked up a D7, held it, or looked
thru the "viewfinder"??? If so, you'd see, feel, and realize that
it is NOT a $1500 camera...no matter how many "features" it has!!!

John

Bob Jones wrote:
Wayne, not all of us live in the "Good old US of A, and not all of
us have £1000 to throw away on a bad camera. I am buying a camera
to replace my Pentax EI2000 which turned out to be a poor choice so
I won't be hot footing it to their site tonight. I need a camera
with the ability to take good pictures and will be rugged in
design, enough so to last me a couple of years of general and
outdoor use, a camera that will not stand the rigors of hiking in
rough terrain is no good to me.
Therefore I am considering the D7 and the E10, what worries be
about the D7 is the problems highlighted in Phil's review about
flimsy appearance.

Wayne wrote:

No this camera won't cure your bad breath, get you a date on Friday
night, or stop your balding spot from expanding (or your waistline
for that matter). It's a camera people - get over it! It still has
the best combination of features and performance for the price
(actually still the only game in town). It even has features that
weren't announced that make it more attractive - increased color
space for one.
O.K. it eats batteries - ONLY 100 shots per set. Guess you people
have never used sheet or roll film! There may be a good reason why
it takes so few shots - to save your poor relatives and any other
audience from having to see more of your photos. When was the last
time any of you took 100 keepers at a sitting (don't answer because
this is directly related to your taste, or lack thereof, and I
don't want to know). You CAN change the batteries you know! I have
4 more sets on the way. If it gets bad I'll just build my D-cell
pack - 38 watts of POWER!
It gets hot! Great! For those of you who are unaware of physics
when heat is generated it is either stored or transferred to
surrounding materials. The fact that the body gets warm indicates
that the metal body is conducting the heat AWAY from the interior
of the camera. Wear an oven mitt if it bothers you.
The shutter button locks up! Great! When I take a photo I want it
to be taken when I decide (plus normal delay which I can compensate
for), not two, three, or four seconds later when the camera is
ready. If I miss a shot I'm going to miss it either way - this way
I'm aware of it. Ever hear of "The decisive moment"?
The camera is heavy on the left! HUH? The grip is on the right, the
body is on the left, what do you expect? Physics again guys. How
can you even tell WITH A ONE POUND CAMERA? Try to hold a Mamiya
RB67 with a prism and a 250mm lens attached to an L-grip and you'll
get the idea (maybe not). Cameras were made to be held with two
hands.
Tripod socket offset! Once again refer to the weight distribution.
If the camera is heavier on the left I would expect the tripod
socket to be on the left. I won't know the balace point until I get
it, but it's not a big point with a 1 pound electronic camera.
Panoramas more difficult to perform! Got news for you - unless you
know the nodal point of your lens, and have a mounting plate that
is adjusted properly, you're not doing it right anyway! BTW my
Gitzo 1227CF arrived from Robert White's today (good old UPS),
YAAY! I needed an excuse to get a smaller model.
Good news for me, the Microdrive doesn't have an appreciable effect
on battery consumption, and actually writes large files faster! My
1GB also arrived today, YAAY (good old FEDEX)!
As for the resolution, it's as good as any other consumercam out
there with a 7:1 zoom - LOL! And as for the difference in
resolution between one site and another - EVER HEARD OF SAMPLE
VARIATION? Who knows how well they were focused to begin with (no
shot intended)? There are mechanical tolerances throughout the
camera, could be any number of reasons. If it had tested to 1600 on
this site would you have bought it? It's not at all unusual for
individual lenses to vary by 30% when talking resolution numbers.
Still, considering that 90% of you were never really considering
buying the camera in the first place, there haven't been that many
dumb posts yet (guess we'll have to wait for the Americans to get
home from work). I'm American, and living in the good old US of A.
Before visiting this forum I had thought that Americans had
cornered the market on whining and bitching, I was wrong. They do
still lead the pack though. Any of you ladies (homeboys) out there
who are going to cancel your orders now, if you have a preorder in
at Eppersons please do it quickly - I want to make sure that I'm
one of the ones who gets his camera from the first shipment.
Do any of you actually take photographs??? I'll be out taking them
while the majority of you are still here (or somewhere else)
whining. Hey, I heard that Pentax is about to release their new
camera! Why don't you all stampede over there and set-up shop?
ROFLMAO!