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I agree. Except at $30 per 1G High Speed Type H xD card it's a virtual non-issue if most of the other advanced features of the new Olympus pans out.
Oh yes!!!
How come?
I wanted opinions from Olympus users. That's what I wrote.
I wrote it cannot be done well. You cannot design a magical lens that does everything. Just look at reviews of any 18-200 DSLR lens. Just look at the lens quality of the S2-S3 vs a 3X zoom. The longer reach, the worse the image quality becomes. Just because Olympus released a 18X lens doesn't mean the laws of physics have changed. We've known how to make lenses for quite a long time, so f it could be done well, it would have been done. I stand by that.
Never eaten words in my life. How's that like?well
it has so it does appear your new post is a case of avoiding having
to eat your words
Believe me, I do too.
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Yes it is. It's a physics major, Optics's master's take on what a lens can do and cannot do. I've studied optical design,I've read lens reviews (visit Fred Mirnda's of SLRgar's lens review pages, and lok at long zooms). I'm not bragging, but I do know some things about lenses.
No argument there. But a camera is just as good as the glass you put in front of the sensor. Using a 18-200 lens will not give results as good as using a prime. If it was possible to design amazing zooms that outperformed primes, it would have been done, and no one would bother about non-zooming lenses. 12X is stretching it as it is, we all know that the superzooms all produce CA and PF. Add more reach, and you get vignetting, out-of-focus corners, more diffraction effects, the list goes on and on.
I'm not a snob eitherr. My first film camera was Samsung, my first digicam a Nikon, my second a Canon, and it looks like my first DSLR will be a Pentax or a Sony. I will be plesantly surprised if the Olympus lens turns out even "good", but it would take more than just adding pieces of glass together to change the way lenses behave. I don't see anything new about that lens design, just more reach. So I'm not holding my breath.
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you and I seem to be alone...
It does if you want RAW. But it's not innovative, it's just a marketting choice. It's like using a good movie mode or no. that was my point.
No issues with that. I didn't elaborate on the rAW item, I wanted to discuss the lens, and the ISO 5000 claim.
My thoughts exactly. Memory card format is minor compared to some of the other compromises that manufacturers have made; ie no RAW, slower lens, etc etc. Memory cards are so cheap these days as to be almost a non-issue if you have to buy a different format.
no problem, same here...actually it's third for me
can you please explain the point of yours?
Of course it would. If the motion sensors detected 1mm of horizontal movement, they would each compensate with 1mm of movement of their own in the opposite direction. And you would overshoot by 1mm in the opposite direction. There might possibly be a way where you could tie the two together to work in tandem somehow, but it doesn't seem likely to me.
