How many of you considered jumping ship

I agree with you....

I'd much rather "invest" (i.e throw money in the toilet) in lenses than a new body every year, but paying big money for top end Olympus lenses - which would let me do things I want to do - is very, very difficult to justify when it looks like there will never be a body that can do justice to the lenses.

On the other hand, I don't know of any system which can match the overall quality, and range of the current E-System lineup.

Catch-22...

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That is so long Olympus refuse to fulfill their promise of quality package in compact size. The E420 would be the purchase for this year, but then Olympus HK here refuse to sell it body only and I simply do not need yet another zoom lens. And of course they do not have the E420+ZD 25mm package either.

I am still waiting patiently for some decent fix focals for 4/3. now that Olympus shown their Micro 4/3, at least I know its not another DSLR ( without a VF, its more like a bigger sized DC with interchangeable lens ). So the E420 still on my list of desired item.

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Every year when new bodies and lenses, flashes etc. are released, I consider what would be my best options for my style of shooting.

Should Oly stop meeting my needs, so be it. I would be better off admitting it and moving on.

I may add a second system once I get a few more lenses for the E 3. I wouldn't mind using a ME-65 macro lens or having better high iso for natural light.

There is a lot of really really nice stuff out there, being brand loyal is very limiting.
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Anything is possible except what you tell yourself isn't.

Moving up to the E-3 with SWD lenses would essentially be "jumping ship" on my existing older E's, 14-54, 11-22, and 50-200.

While I suppose I could upgrade incrementally, I've gotten the impression from what I've read here that the SWD lenses alone aren't a compelling upgrade if you already have their "older" counterparts. Likewise, while the E-3 offers many advantages over my E-1/E-510 combo (and 'retired' E-300), I can't help but feel it would be hamstrung with the non-SWD glass.

Thus, to get the full benefit of the E-3 and SWD speed I'd essentially be replacing my whole system anyway, so why not consider other brands at that point?

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Jump ship is not exactly considered at this point. But I'm very seriously considering selling the E400 kit and three other lenses (one Olympus and two Sigma). That imply that I must retain the E1 and a few more lenses. After that, must decide Canon or Nikon, both FF. But so far still waiting.
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I'd probably never sell my E1/14-54 combo - its been so good to me. I have recently bought an E-3 and its great and all, but if that is as good as its going to get from Olympus then yes, I may sell up and get a D700 next year, if business is going well. But I do take lots of pictures of stage shows and as we know, high ISO/low light is not Olys strong point.
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You're a little better than I am, Jay. At least you have the E3, and that is a camera I've been considering, because of IS. But I don't know anymore. For my kind of amateur photography, FT is indeed more than enough, but I don't want to collect more obsolete photo equipment.

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I'm not jumping but I'm not going any further with Oly. I shoot an Oly E-510 occasionally and a Nikon D80 mostly and am ready for the next level intermediate camera and the E-3 for the money or the future tweener doesn't excite me enough to wait around when I can get a D300/90 or a Canon 40d/50D now. By the time Oly actually ships a tweener or even if they reduced the price of the E-3 down to around $1299-1399.00 now, I'd still pay a lil more for a D300 or get the Canon..who knows what they'll have by the time the tweener actually ships?? Oly better get moving if they want to increase any market share but that's not my problem or concern....I sure like the Zuiko lenses though but I'm not going any further with any Oly bodies I can see down the road...
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1) I like my equipment belive it or not.
2) I like the Ideal of a E-XX (will buy)
3) I shoot long stuff 2 X crop suits me ( So please Olympus bring out a 400mm )

4) Every year at this time a lot of camera makers become "Titanic's " to their users. Especially Olympus and in the past Pentax but Pentax have seems to be doing a Phoenix (4 bodies and 6 lenses in 1 year) Hmmmm....

5) I can't afford to jump ship to as I have about 10K invested in Olympus stuff and we don't have a Fleabay here in SA.

6) MFT has not kept me in the fold as the Olympus offering is downright UGLY ( We will have a rattle snake skin covered one made of compessed wood next) and has no vewfinder. ( I don't like cameras that make you look like you are try to read your mail when taking picktures and talk about Conspicuous) The Panosonic one is going to be to expensive for a rinky dinky camera.
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sorry for typing errors, i am tired now

In the last 9 years I had Oly+Fuji+Sony (Positive experience) and Sigma+Nikon(Negative Experiance) so normally I do not hesitate to change if there is a reason.

Since 2-3 years I have Oly only and see no reason to change, but I have Oly because I like the FT standard and thank the Oly engineers to establis that standard, not because I like Oly.

I may cycle between Oly, Panny and Leica-Fourthirds/MFT

The many trolls and superior-feeling males with that arguments like "bigger-sensor-is-better-and--lenses-are-irrrelevant"
only drive me more into the Fourthirds camp.

I want to deliver good images and not compensate for a small p*nis.

As long as we accept that we shoot more zooms than primes, FT is perfect.

For purposes where prime-lens-shooting would be no problem, medium format would be perfect, but pri,e-lens-shooting in events and portraiture is suboptimal
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I mean for a compact. I am very very excited about this, I would even make like 1/2 my work on it if Fuji doesn't screw up on lens quality, lens speed and photographic controls.

What's your take? It's SR son steroids and HR all in one pass.

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http://www.fujifilm.com/photokina2008/pdf/catalogue/super_ccd_exr.pdf

I realize those images in that PDF are small, but color and overall "light response" can be to some extent assessed a tiny bit.. as a "taste." Looks pretty good to me! A good DSLR quality ISO 100 shot, 12 megapixels from an ultra compact (F710 class size? Maybe a tad bigger?) makes me very very very interested indeed. For street stuff and high contrast situations it reads dream come true.

Now Fuji, don't screw up the lens, please...

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makes a good photograph.'

that would be a pocket cam and for 3D thingies.
That will in no way replace 4/3.
I am still thinking if I may buy that, I would say p=33%
You cannot say I jump ship If I buy a other-brand pocket cam
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I cannot decode that PDF, have an old pdf reader perhaps, sorry, good night nt
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Martin Frost said:

that would be a pocket cam and for 3D thingies.
That will in no way replace 4/3.
I am still thinking if I may buy that, I would say p=33%
You cannot say I jump ship If I buy a other-brand pocket cam

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Well, yeah.. I mean I wouldn't dump my 4/3rds equipment.
I know what you mean

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Andreas Feininger (1906-1999) 'Photographers — idiots, of which there are
so many — say, “Oh, if only I had a Nikon or a Leica, I could make great
photographs.” That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life. It’s
nothing but a matter of seeing, and thinking, and interest. That’s what
makes a good photograph.'

Who in the hell says that you have to "jump ship?" What is all this jumping ship business anyway. It's all cyclic you know. When Canon was on a roll, Nikon users lamented the fact that Nikon was sleeping and that many were considering this ship jumping. Then when Canon was sleeping and Nikon was on a roll...the same occurred, but this time in reverse.

Now granted, don't get me wrong here because I am a dual Oly and Nikon system user and I wouldn't give up either one - that's for sure. But to arbitrarily throw caution to the wind and embrace another brand system exclusively is not necessarily the wisest thing to do - unless of course, you've thought everything out patiently and logically.

Alright, so let's map this scenario out. So let's say you elect to sell your Oly gear - all of it (you will never get what it is worth...at least in your mind). Wow, so now you pick up some Nikon or Canon gear (nothing wrong in that). Then after the first of the year, Oly releases a bunch of new products with some really neat (perhaps groundbreaking) features. Whadda'ya do now? Jump ship on Nikon or Canon and head back to Oly land? The bottom line is that it's all cyclic and trust me...your current gear will work just fine.

But in the final analysis...it's just camera gear - material things - things that come and go as time goes on. Human relationships are far more important, trust me on that one.
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Ben Herrmann said:

Who in the hell says that you have to "jump ship?" What is all this
jumping ship business anyway.

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Ben,

Not everyone can just buy (and keep) them all like you. ;-)

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After having used Olympus for the past four years (5050, 5060, 7070, 8080, E-1, E-330), I switched systems earlier this year (to Nikon/Zeiss).

In many ways and on a variety of levels, the decision has been a beneficial one. It forced me to learn a heck of a lot of new tools, modes & techniques. It also forced me to ask new questions of how and what I want to express with my images. Different approaches, different experiences.

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Inigo Montoya said:

Thus, to get the full benefit of the E-3 and SWD speed I'd
essentially be replacing my whole system anyway, so why not consider
other brands at that point?

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And what if you want wireless flash? same again, you have to replace the flashes AND the camera.

are forced to use Canon equipment at work (the 5D, and more recently the 450D) ... because that is what is recommended by some nameless person higher up in the heirarchy who holds the purse strings, and has never used a dslr in his/her life, but have read all the great Canon reviews on the web.... but have never, ever actually looked at a photo-hosting website and compared Canon images to those from other dsrs. Most of my colleagues have bought Canon .... they started off with the 350D .... unfortunately for them, they reckoned that the camera simply didn't focus .... which was unfortunate considering most of them bought 2 or 3 lenses to go with the body ..... so considering the expense of the latter, they sought to improve their chances of getting correctly-focussed pics by purchasing the 400D .... but to no avail. Now they look at my Oly images, plus those produced by other colleagues, who own Nikon and Pentax dslrs, with envy.