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I just finished charging the LIPO battery for my E-10 and it works! :-)
Powered on my E-330, actuated the shutter a couple of times and it works! :-)
All 3 of my E-1s are fully functional! :-)
...and my DMC-L1s are still working, too! :-)

Bill Turner
 
I just checked and my E-1 and E-3 are still working... But the question is will they still work after the demise of the world, as we now know it, on 12/21/2012 ? ;)
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Regards... Ken
 
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... when the photograph annihilates itself as medium to be no longer a sign but the thing itself...

 
I sold my E-500, E-510, and E-520 but my C-50 is still working, with the original battery! I have 50-200, 12-60 and 25mm f1.4 fourthirds lenses getting lonely and lusting after a new body
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I hope you got them resently. Otherwise, I wish I had your budget when new they were around $5000 when I lived in Canada. Now I can get one used for $400.

Buy the way all my lens work and my E3 is still shooting every day. My newer used E510 full spec does get less work though.
 
E-3 (May 2008) = operational, flawless

E-1 (Jan 2008) = operational, some rubber grip issues, CF door sticks (2 hands to open now)
E-510 (Feb 2007) = operational in my sisters capable hands now

Oh, my other cameras work too since the lines were upgraded:

Praktica with 50 f/1.8 (circa 1974) = operational, meter battery still going strong after 3 years.
Canon AE-1 = operational
Panasonic FX7 (circa 2004) = operational with low battery life left
Canon G9 (March 2008) = operational
Canon g11 (just added) = better be operational!

Zuiko 50-200 (non-SWD) = perfect
Zuiko 14-54 MI = optically perfect, even with some body damage from a drop

WOW! I guess cameras do work after they have had competitors released!
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-Ken
'Don't feed the trolls!'
http://www.kwaphoto.com (images and photography blog)
 
my C-5050 and OM2 are working and take quality images....it's amazing!
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Tony
667....Neighbour of the beast....Form is temporary, glass is permanent.
 
And for the "shoot and publish" generation, it's one of the best bodies ever IMO (seriously, the number of images that have gone straight from the camera to Flickr far exceeds any other body I own).

Edit: My L1 lives too and seems to quite like the 25mm pancake.

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J



http://www.flickr.com/photos/jason_hindle

Gear in profile
 
E-1 #1 in 2005
E-1 #2 in 2006
E-1 #3 last year. It has 127 shutter actuations! :-)

Bill Turner
 
People are trying to kill them, and those machines keep working, as if they have a life of their own.

Even that fossile I call the E1 is still able to work. Amazing.

António
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I hope those 1910 cosmic umbrelles appears again. As a aztec descended, fun begin on the other side of galaxy. Where the gama-ray burster are ;). But it would be nice to see the Sun right in the center of the Milky Way. A good spot maybe Saturn? As for doom day, one week with no cell phone service in S. California, will be killer. Come on San Anderas, I got my E-410 **** and loaded.
 
Bootstrap said:
I just finished charging the LIPO battery for my E-10 and it works! :-)
Powered on my E-330, actuated the shutter a couple of times and it works! :-)
All 3 of my E-1s are fully functional! :-)
...and my DMC-L1s are still working, too! :-)
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Do people actually think that if new models come out that their old cameras stop working?

And I say this as an E-300 and E-330 user (and I've gone back to my C-700 when I had a hand injury and couldn't hold the heavier "E" cameras).

What is it about cameras...do people have the same feelings about cars? When the small Smart car came out did your 6 person sedan suddenly stop working? I've had my last car for 15 years...it was still working when I got a new one and sold the old one to a apprentice mechanic who could deal with its issues and still get a lot of miles out of it.
 
OK bill - I need you to come over and speak with my wife please.... perhaps it would calm her nerves to learn that somebody out there has more camera bodies than I do.

Are you available for consulting work?
Bootstrap said:
I just finished charging the LIPO battery for my E-10 and it works! :-)
Powered on my E-330, actuated the shutter a couple of times and it works! :-)
All 3 of my E-1s are fully functional! :-)
...and my DMC-L1s are still working, too! :-)

Bill Turner
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Regards,

Jerry
 
So Bill, it appears you have been upgrading all along...from your Canon film camera(s) to the E-10 > > > the E-300 > > > E-1 > > > E-330 > > > L1, and I'd bet that these will not be your last camera models either. That's 5 different models in 10 years. A new upgrade every 2 years, and for someone that, to my knowledge, is not a professional photographer (forgive me if I'm wrong on that account). So why begrudge those desiring std 4/3rds upgrade camera bodies?

Personally, I can understand Olympus's business strategy, but for the time being, and with Oly's history of abandoning OM users and not keeping pace with technology, ie, not developing autofocus back in the day, it puts pro photographers using 4/3rds in a precarious position. Olympus has it's business strategy and so do pro photographers. The upgrade path is part and parcel of the digital era we live in. You have just proved it with your op.

jeff
Bootstrap said:
I just finished charging the LIPO battery for my E-10 and it works! :-)
Powered on my E-330, actuated the shutter a couple of times and it works! :-)
All 3 of my E-1s are fully functional! :-)
...and my DMC-L1s are still working, too! :-)

Bill Turner
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Dr. Frederick Frankenstein:

"For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius."

Young Frankenstein (1974)
 
My E-300/500/510/520/620 all still seem to be functioning (that took a bunch of battery charging) also E-330 #1 is still functioning, as well as E-330 #2 is, and my L-1 is working great!..

My 2 Canon DSLRs may or may not be working.. I havent used either of them in quite some time....
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Larry In Mystic Connecticut, USA
Equine Event shooter
Sometimes Wildlife shooter
Sometimes 'Street' Shooter
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory..

'I can't use the cell phone in my car. I have to keep my hands free for making gestures.'.......
 
8080, 330 and E 3 all ready to go. :)

Me on the other hand, that's going to take some doing. I think I'd better get me one of those energy drinks things.
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JimB
Bug Whisperer

Member of the Colorado Olympus Group

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Somehow, this electronic/optical gear seems blissfully unaware of all the online panic and angst that Olympus isn't squandering development resources on incremental upgrades to make them feel better.

I fired up my E20 the other day. I'd forgotten how well built that body was, and how utterly silent it was, not to mention the great shots it took as long as you kept ISO low.

The E330? This loveable little mutt of a camera is still my favorite choice for close macro. I tried the 50M+EX25+STF22 on the EP1, but really prefer the 330, it handles better with all that gear loaded up on it.

My poor, neglected E1 - I need to charge it's battery some time soon.

And the E3, still going strong, still handling the larger glass that would have the EP1 slipping through your fingers. LCD framing can be done, but why pass up that big, beautiful OVF? It's a Mercedes for your eyes.
 
Yes, it most assuredly is. My E-3 (nearly owned one year) and my so-ugly-its-cute E-300 (owned since March 2006) continue to produce excellent photographs. The cameras continue to far excel their owner, and quite a few of the nattering nabobs of negativism I keep running into on this forum.
 
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