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I am currently trying to decide whether or not to purchase a telephoto lens for my Olympus E1 (the lens isnt cheap) or buy a 'Superzoom' camera like the Pro815. I played with one today at a local store and that screen is truly impressive, makes you want to use it!

I would really like to see some more photos from the Pro815 when you all have a minute.

Particularily I would like to see some extreme telephoto and some macro shots if possible.

Thanks in advance!

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Hi,

Could you PLEASE send me a Raw file when you get a chance, I would truly appreciate it...

I seen the photo you posted in the other thread of the building in LA (if I remember correctly...) and would really like a Raw capture of that!

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I've been eyeing the 815 for some time now - and now with the price being as low as $600 USD - and seeing your interest in it (with all the wonderful pictures you take with all of your cameras), I'm now toying with getting one.

You're a bad influence - shame on you :-)
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some people from Ma's Theatre group want a 28-300 or more cam and no bigger than 10X8 prints and the 815 is the only current answer - the KM-A2 / Pro1 aren't long enough and the FZ7 not wide enough, D50 + 18-200 (Sigma or Nikon) my choice but way too expensive for them..

I looked at the 815 review and it looks far better than I expected, Heck I'd love to try one myself out of curiosity if they come down in price or cheap used - it suffers that parennial bugbear of no buffer + slow RAW writes that all but Canon & KM seem to suffer (it Killed the lovely CP8800 for me which even was slow in JPG) but even overprocessed 815 JPGs would make superb 10X8s.....

WHY can't Sony, Oly, Nikon, Samsung, Kodak, Pan, Fuji etc put decent card interfaces and buffers in their Digicams? - Canon have since the damn G1 of 2001 !! KM since the A1 ..

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Adam-T said:
some people from Ma's Theatre group want a 28-300 or more cam and
no bigger than 10X8 prints and the 815 is the only current answer -
the KM-A2 / Pro1 aren't long enough and the FZ7 not wide enough,
D50 + 18-200 (Sigma or Nikon) my choice but way too expensive for
them..
I looked at the 815 review and it looks far better than I expected,
Heck I'd love to try one myself out of curiosity if they come down
in price or cheap used - it suffers that parennial bugbear of no
buffer + slow RAW writes that all but Canon & KM seem to suffer (it
Killed the lovely CP8800 for me which even was slow in JPG) but
even overprocessed 815 JPGs would make superb 10X8s.....
WHY can't Sony, Oly, Nikon, Samsung, Kodak, Pan, Fuji etc put
decent card interfaces and buffers in their Digicams? - Canon have
since the damn G1 of 2001 !! KM since the A1 ..
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I totally agree, I can't understand why these manufacturer's put these small buffers in cameras, memory isn't that expensive...

The small buffer in my S3 Pro was a big reason for me to get rid of it. I can sort of understand having the smaller buffer in a camera like the Pro815 but it was totally unnaceptable in a DSLR like the S3 Pro...

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Member said:
The small buffer in my S3 Pro was a big reason for me to get rid of
it.
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Actually you can get away with a small buffer if the card interface is fast enough and they compress RAWs and there really IS NO Excuse for that as it doesn't cost anything material like RAM chips - the D50 only has a 4 shot RAW buffer but you can shoot away in single shot mode until the card runs out because it writes to card faster than you can half press the button, check the focussing beep or re-press if needed, frame perfectly and full press.. if the 815 wrote fast, had at least SOME buffer and compressed the RAWs, no one would complain - Same for the Sony 828 and R1, Fuji S9500 etc - they're all living in the 1990s ! as I said before, even the 2001 vintage Canon G1 Buffered and compressed RAWs

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