Thursday, November 15, 2001, 6:55:48 AM, Mike wrote: MJ> Len wrote: >> Except, perhaps, for the Olympus E-10 and E-20n which SLRs with >> manual zoom, and will zoom just as fast as you want. They're >> priced a lot lower than Nikon and Canon SLR digitals. DPReview >> is a good place to read about them.
MJ> I would kill to own one of these.... Although it's OT, I have used the E-10 for a while, borrowed from a friend PJ. The manual zoom ring is great, indeed. Only the viewfinder seemed too dim to me (probably because of the beam-splitter arangement, and the smaller virtual image which needs to be more magnified in the finder). I also thought it would have better finder display (it was old design, much like SFXn age bodies - no bargraph like in Z1 or MZ-5n, only aperture+speed+infocus indicator). Otherwise, a great tool. Anything below it is either slow or LCD-pseudo-slr (I had a look at one of those, with homecamera-like lcd finder, and it was completely unusable. They used some outdated lcd in the finder, so it was so "grainy" and unsharp, even worse than your ordinary DV cam finder. I expected something like in Betacams or professional S-VHS cameras (big, B&W, super-resolution finder, with high visibility from apart, and almost real resolution) BTW, I heard that Olympus will make a SLR with interchangeable lenses based on E10? E20 is pretty shitty wrt noise, I heard. I am looking forward to the Pentax digital, even if I can't afford it ;-) Frantisek BTW, thanks for all the help about EI-2000. If I have some direct question, I know where to ask :) - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
