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I'm sure if you look back at the forum posts when the E-3 came out there were an abundance of E-3 posts. Enjoy the fact that this is good for Oly and will give them funds to do more R&D to give you the features and improvements that you want to see in a camera or the lens line up.
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terry
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Those female volleyball player shots are great-- I especially like the 1st one. Thanks for posting some sanity here.

Forget the men-- the shot is great, but hey, I'm a guy;> ) Also forget the E-P1 the present "craze" will run it's course soon enough.

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Raymond,

I remember your post and I looked, but honestly, the gallery you linked to was difficult and time consuming to navigate. It would have been better to either post just your pictures as you normally do, or link to a site that had the pictures better separated and browsable. Just my 2 cents.

Great photo as always.

Mike
 
Love the sport and your skill at capturing the right moments. This is certainly one of the right moments.

The E-P1 clamor will die down in time I suppose. Still good to see great shots from any camera.

Cheers,
Seth

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I am well aware of the fact that a new camera, especially a camera like the E-P1, will take up a lot of space and interest in the forum for some time after the news. And I think that is just right. Now we shall see the same thing in all the photo magazines.

I think that I was annoyed by all the people telling me that holding the camera to my eyes was something old fashioned and bad, when I think it is the only sensible way to take serious images. I had hoped that the new Olympus would be like a second camera to serious photographers, something light to carry around instead of the heavy stuff they normally use.

And now I understand that the next camera will have an EVF. That is still not a solution for me (and many others). My only hope now is a couple of good lenses (primes) with optical viewfinders for the hotshoe.

In Stavanger, of course all the serious (pro) photographers around the court were using cameras with optical viewfinders. That German journalist was the only exception. The LCD only cameras were only to be seen among the spectators.
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Raymond Wardenaer said:
I think that I was annoyed by all the people telling me that holding the camera to my eyes was something old fashioned and bad, when I think it is the only sensible way to take serious images. I had hoped that the new Olympus would be like a second camera to serious photographers, something light to carry around instead of the heavy stuff they normally use.
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Holding the camera to the eye does help for stability and it isn't old fashioned. Using a long lens (what you need), out in front of you isn't not a simple undertaking. Tracking a moving subject at 200mm on an LCD is not easy and that is not from the refresh rate or any like that, it is from the ability to move the camera in such a way to keep the subject in the frame. Clearly the E-P1 is not meant for that application. However, there is also an entire generation of people using cameras that have never held one to their eye so an LCD is all they know.
osloray said:
And now I understand that the next camera will have an EVF. That is still not a solution for me (and many others). My only hope now is a couple of good lenses (primes) with optical viewfinders for the hotshoe.
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A good EVF that doesn't blank out when shooting a burst could become a reality, so today not a solution but in the future maybe.
osloray said:
In Stavanger, of course all the serious (pro) photographers around the court were using cameras with optical viewfinders. That German journalist was the only exception. The LCD only cameras were only to be seen among the spectators.
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There is a bit of chicken and egg going on here. There aren't any because there were no capable cameras. I'm excited because we are seeing some true innovation going on and that can only be a good thing.

The good thing is that we have a lot of people embracing the new technology and camera designs which will encourage more innovation.
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Raymond,

your shots are fantastic, especially those three with light/sand play... although I feel hard pressed to pick favorites, they all are great. Thank you for posting them.

I totally missed first time you posted. Glad you did again. This is some high quality photo work.
 
Everywhere I look on this forum I see sad little volleyball players who couldn't make varsity basketball. Don't you have a proper American sport to trot out on this forum, says the man with sarcastic tongue firmly planted in cheek?

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Glen
 
Great shots indeed.

For me the Holy Grail of soccer shots is the Header. 22 players spread out over half a mile (exagerated) with inconsistent sunshine. Add to that the fact that you are never really sure where the ball is going to come down and what direction the sun and the player will be in at the time you start firing. Well, it's just pure luck in the end.

http://dndphotos.smugmug.com/gallery/8128903_Xnvhw/1/590085472_f3eaj/Large

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...with an E-P1??? :P

Just kidding, its a good think there's a new forum now, isn't it?? Those are brilliant shots, thanks so much for sharing. Would you mind telling us about the lens that was used as well as the shooting technique?

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Raymond Wardenaer said:
We also take other kind of images, from different situations. Here are just a few:

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This one reminds me of Female Mud Wrestling. I guess it is Female Sand Wrestling. BTW, what do they do with the ball?

Excellent shots Raymond. (c:)

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'When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two,
and I know it was not that blow that did it,
but all that had gone before.'
-- Jacob Riis (1849 - 1914)

Stay Well,
Pete K.
 
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