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The original OM was a superb piece of product design, and Olympus will augment the fit and finish to a new level. Be sure that the old prism housing will be put to good function. If you don't like "humps", there are plenty of bodies for sale without.
It wont be the 'lack thereof' that you'll be discussing in this case.
those of you who are left eye dominant.
You don't have any bandits left? We could lend you some
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... let us not forget the quotation that "So called common sense is often in reality nothing more than common prejudice."
Like many ideas this one is not new. Back in the early days of digital photography it seemed like a natural moneyspinner to do this. See:
It is somewhat strange how certain legacy lenses seem to work well, and some are really, really bad in this regard (I've had a really bad one, and some really good). While it's true that the sensor is smaller than film, and to a degree I think that in itself helps some, since much of the peripheral highly angled light is lost with the crop factor. At low wide apertures, haliation can be noticed on some of the legacy lenses, but most aren't that sharp anyway at the really wide apertures (F 1.4 etc.) So on the better of them, it's not too much of a problem. I don't know if the varying register differences influence this all or not. My Minolta's have all worked well as the Tamron Adaptall line. Had a 24mm Sigma (used) that I returned, as it was almost unusable . Most of the original APS-C lenses on the 10d-20d and D70 were all designed for film...many with excellent results like the 17-40L F4 or the 20-35 or even the 24-85 that I used a lot. ..sharp as a tack...and really there's not that much difference in APS-C and M43 in this regard. So yeah you've got to be careful...but a lot of them work pretty well- at least the ones I've used.
I'd have to agree...that what I said does come partly from that (prejudice) since I got used to simplified and easy to get at controls from shooting with film...and naturally would gravitate to something familiar...but then again it took years to work out these controls (although as others have said necessitated by the required layout of a film camera)...My C8080 wasn't much like a film camera in design or layout, but did have external buttons and controls that were simple and direct and after getting used to a new concept, I loved the way the camera operated. So change can be a good/bad thing depending on our own prejudices...or our own needs. Opinions can also come from logic as well (and those can also vary). In my mind I feel it is logical not to come between a photographer and the camera. The camera should be in my view, as close in operation to the photographers own eye as possible ( of course without being a bionic implant ;-) and to me that requires controls for important functions that become almost instinctual. However they are implemented...and certainly agree that this forum is great for expressing ideas, no matter how varied, since sometimes when a whole bunch of various things get boiled up, something new and better comes out.
