LOL ... At least two reviews have relegated the Olympus E-3 to being a "semi-pro" or "advanced amateur" status camera already simply because it *only* supports 5 fps capture speed. "hey man, if you haven't got 9, you're a wuss."
I think reviewers and equipment junkies today are idiots. G On Jan 23, 2008, at 10:51 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: > So it seems that Pentax has produced a machine gun to compete with, > hum, > I'm not sure who they're competing with, a movie camera it seems like. > There are features I would have preferred to super speedy frame rates. > Five frames per second in raw capture would have been more than enough > for me, and I doubt many sports shooters are going to forsake their > "auto Cannons" to move over to Pentax. > > Adam Maas wrote: >> The bomb: 20fps burst mode. Unfortunately the german pamphlet is >> somewhat obtuse and either indicates that burst mode is 1.6MP only or >> that it maxes at 115 frames when 1.6MP is selected but can do lower >> framecounts at higher resolution. >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

