Why did YOU choose Olympus?

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Pretty much in that order, then the 14-54 of course.

I have a several year old E1 now, and still love it, still shoot in JPEG, still don't have to do a lot of PP.

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Wazza

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firstly price/performance ratio
first class lens

and surperb pic quality... thats all I can say for now... but I also have my pentax for lower light shots with the 50mm F1.4... so horses for couress...
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Lens quality, forward looking company.

Sensor development will rapidly outstrip lens improvement, and is doing so now.

Good (and rapidly improving) sensors with top lenses is the way FORWARD

Olympus were honest with their users straight up, instead of perpetrating a fraud on them ("sure you can use your old lenses") - and then - ("here are the new digital lenses")

Olympus lenses (even the 'cheap' ones) are an investment in the best possible pictures for the money, not just this week, but for the future without having to buy 'better' lenses as C&N have forced their loyal users to do.

Having taken for a ride like THAT, just to keep you hooked, would leave a bad taste in my mouth.

Olympus kit lenses are objectively measured as being better than the others at the same prices . . . this easily independently verified and I encourage you to do so.

Their top lenses are equal to or better than any. Like fast telephotos? try the 150mm F2!

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Measurebaters: Isn't the ultimate 'measurement' the result, IE the print?

Being an oldtime Olympus digital camera user, I felt it was naturally for me to look at Olympus again

My decision to go olympus was quite simple.. I brought My E-300 pretty soon after the release based on the quality of the kitlenses, the featureset on the E-300 and the excellent color reproduction.

i do feel that the systems gives me what I want from a Dslr system, lenses in excellent quality, great dustbuster and an ease of use.

If i was to consider something else, I would probably have gone with Nikon, but Oly still favours me with excellent pictures...

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Jens Holm

The 4/3 sensor give it an advantage and as OLy want to markety it, it would supposed be making stride in compact but quality packaging and would do well in Tele.

Well the Tele part is a good claim, but not the others , I am still awiating for some real serious compact package ! And I do mean yet another ZOOM !
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Franka T.L. said:

Well the Tele part is a good claim, but not the others , I am still
awiating for some real serious compact package ! And I do mean yet
another ZOOM !

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Like the E-400? Thats definately a small package imho.

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Jens Holm

Almost 2 years (19 months) ago I had max €1200,- budget to spend on a DSLR. For that money I could get a E300 with 14-45, 40-150, battery grip, 4 batteries, FL36 flash and a 512 MB card. With the other brands I could only get the body + kitlens and some memory (Minolta 5D, Canon EOS350, Nikon D70s). And since it's the photographer and not the camerabrand who is most responsible for the quality of the pictures I thought it was best to go for the most complete package and learn to master it.

It's one of the great things that happend to me in the past 2 years. The other one is in the picture I took with the E300.



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That's exactly my reason as well. It's a dynamite travel lens, and none of the other manufacturers make anything comparable.

Cheers,

Andreas

Probably becasue i was initially interested by the "ground up" approach that Olympus took. Liked the concept of 4/3rds

Also I had a work colleague who bought a 10D cos all the reviews said it was the best, the first thing he did was complain about how it never focused on what he wanted it to!!!! He let me borrow it for a morning and I found that my arms absolutely ached like hell after only a short period....plus it was too big for my relatively small hands.

Another work colleague totally slated Olympus and took a very biased pro Canon approach....virtually telling me that if I considered anyother brand then I was stupid.

I was lucky in that i was able to rent an E1 from a local supplier (in Nov 2003) for a couple of days...the total intuitivity of the design and menus won me over almost immediately....I didnt have to spend hours of my limited time pouring over a manual to figure out how to use the damned thing and although a lot of the shots that I took during this short time period were poor there are two that still hang on the walls of my house to this day.

Lets say that after this two day dalliance there was no going back to anything else other than an E1!!!!

A comment in my five year old daughters school report very much sums up my attitude and approach...."Isobel dares to be different....".

Like my daughter I've never been one to follow the crowd, even rebelling against mainstream concensus and forming my own opinions that often "buck the trend". My choice was as much a revolt against the sheep that bought Canon/Nikon as it was based upon an informed buying process.

I havent regretted it one little bit.

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It felt right. You're going to be holding a camera in one hand quite a bit - get one that feels good to use and has an interface that you understand.

I was also impressed by the dust prevention technology and the build quality (I own an E-500)

I'll also be looking with interest to see what comes out in March as I'd love to have a second body and some higher quality lenses than the kit ones.
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HI Kevin

I have had my oly 300 for a year now and over the moon with it.The reason that I decided to own this camera is seeing the wonderful results that were posted on photobucket forums also this forum.I have been impressed with many that have interested me.The lady that I have to congratulate for me owning the oly is Jennyi of this forum Her photographs have been a real inspiration.
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2004 the E-1 was the only cam providing a sturdy, ergonomic, splash- and dustproof body for a reasonable price.

also liked the image quality (and still do). in addition I use oly since 1977 (OM-1+ 2, mju:II) and wasn't ever disappointed.

today I would probably decide differently as there are more options for such a cam in the DSLR market.

even though I lstill love the offered focal ranges of the zuiko pro zooms. and the E-1

anyway am looking forward what oly will announce. call me old fashioned but I do hope for a simple, gimmick free, ergonomic, sturdy, splash- and dustproof and good valued cam. doubt my wishes comes true...

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I noticed over 50% of the repliers buy Olympus because of the good price, there are very few offer of other opinions about the camera, picture quality etc. Most of the repliers who are very happy about their camera are E1 MODEL OWNERS, but the E1 IS AN OLD CAMERA, it almost 4 years old technology. I have not see that many favourable remarks about other models. I have read many CAMERA MAGAZINES reviews compare Olympus to CANON, NIKON, SONY and PENTAX, Olympus consistently has a lower marks than the others. I don't own any other DSLR, I can only judged from the PROFESSIONAL INDEPENDENT opinions. I personally own ( about 4 months) an E500 because of the price like 50% of the repliers here. I am not happy with the quality of the pictures, I would appreciate anyboby own the E500 ( NOT THE E1 MODEL) express their views but so far, I am not convinced.

I began with Olympus nearly 7 years ago with the E-10 fixed-lens DSLR. At that time most cameras of that type approached a five-figure price. The E-10 sold for a "mere" $1800. I liked the feel, controls and image quality (write/review speed not so much). Wanting to upgrade the E-1 seemed the logical choice. Not wanting to be poking aroud the sensor with a glorified Q-Tip every couple months it seemed the logical choice, too. Posts on the effectiveness of the dust-buster in forums like this one sold me. In my film days I was a firm Nilon enthusiast but didn't let that keep me from trying something new. To this day no regrets.

I needed something rugged for harsh environments that got colors correct and took a very tru to life picture.

I tried a bunch of other brands and settled on Olympus and have not been sorry I did.

When I decided for E1 + 14-54 + FL36 the price was like that of Canon E350 +17-85IS (without flash). 14-54 is, in my opinion, way better than 17-85 in every aspect, the 5mp of E1 is enough for me so it was easy to decide. I'm using now also the EC14 and the 50-200 and the combo gives an equiv. of 480mm perfectly frozen handheld above 1/500s, easy to get at ISO400 or 800.

I tried an E400 + 17-85IS last week and all I can tell I wouldn't change my E1 for that. Most pictures from E400 were underexposed, images a little soft (of course one can sharpen), so many points of focus that I had to switch on central to focus where I wanted to, holding the camera in one hand fingers got tired in 10' , barrel distorsion at wide angle, vignetting, should I tell more?

Bootstrap said:

No camera I've ever used has matched the quality and flexibility of
the Olympus offerings.
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I suppose Olympus was the only dSLR you ever used? How could then others match?

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