Hey David,
Sorry I'm coming in late in the game, but I usually avoid heavy fimware topics and stick with the fluff pieces.
How's Gonzo doing? I forgot how much I miss him.
still believes that there is no "empirical evidence" to support a known issue, and I tend to agree with him still, but the fact remains that there is a certain number of cases now and it seems to be growing.
What sort of empirical evidence would he like? Would his shutter freezing on him be enough evidence? What about you? If was enough for me.
Here's the thing. Back when the black death announcements started showing up, the camera was relatively new. There weren't too many people around putting TENS of thousands of shots on the camera aside from Jono. Jono's camera made it past 30,000 in a relatively short period of time and that was kinda the evidence that there is no ABSOLUTE shutter count for the E. If Jono has made it to 30,000 than there must be something wrong with the cameras that dies, not all of the cameras. Well, it may b true that not ALL the cameras have frozen, but we seem to have inappropriately dismissed the breakdown and freak events when we should have considered Jono to be a freak event. But that would be too difficult. I believed my camera would live forever. I'M invincible, why not my camera too? The death of my camera has shown me that it is most likely that it is a design flaw and that the cameras are mortal and given time, the majority will end up back at Oly, on eBay or in the sh!tpile. (The experience still hasn't convinced me that I'm mortal. In time.)
I never had MF problems. It took me a while to get used to AF, but it worked fine. I had a dead pixel that I never noticed unless I ran tests for it. NOise never ruined any photos. All these problems that people were having with their cameras did not apply to me, so I figured a) all these people are nuts, b) all these people have bum cameras, and c) my camera rocks. Well, a week ago my camera was rendered as useless as a rock. Or as usefu as a rock if there were any Palistinian tanks I could throw it at. There weren't.
The evidence is there. And remember, we at DPR are a small number of E owners. Imagine how many are out there that we never hear about. The peace protestors believe there are no war supporters because the war supporters are not out there marching. Do you believe there are no other dead E's out there just because they have been posted on DPR?
Someday your shutter will die. SOME day. Maybe not tomorrow or even this year, but someday. Be ready.
Also: the "known issue"? Oly lists (listed) the shutter at 20,000 cycles. Do you think they'd OVERexaggerate ot UNDERexaggerate?
-Disillustioned and waiting for the 10D - the savior of the universe. God's gift to photographers. The camera that will not only last forever, be completely noiseless, write files to cards in .03 seconds and also end world hunger - it will also make your photos smell like vanilla and chocolate. Well, not YOURS, Mark.
-GageFX
Did you come to any conclusion about the Shutter?
Hi all.
As a result of my post titled Shutter failure poll, I have noticed
that some E20 cams now have the firmware of 1.104 installed. Until
now, I thought I had the latest firmware, but it seems there's been
yet another update since.
Can anyone tell what the new 1.104 firmware update offers over the
previous, and if it's something I should consider? I can't find
any refernce to it on Oly's site (surprise, surprise).
Thanks a ton.
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(DC's)/ Oly E20, Kodak DC4800's, (DV)/ Canon GL1, ZR25,(35mm)/
Minolta HTsi+
PBase supporter
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(DC's)/ Oly E20, Kodak DC4800's, (DV)/ Canon GL1, ZR25,(35mm)/
Minolta HTsi+
PBase supporter
