My thoughts too, Bob. The E-1 is a professionally capable axe like my Nikon F3/T+MD-4 was, and more capable in several ways.
And actually the Leica M8 is another "photographer's camera" ... it's just not designed as appropriate for combat conditions, which the TotL Olympus, Nikon and Canon cameras are. I'm kinda surprised that this combat photojournalist would consider an M8 as appropriate to his field work after using a loaner. I could tell immediately from fooling with it at the store that it fits in the class of use that the K10D and L1 fit in, not the kind of bash around rugged piece that the E-1/E-3, Canon 1D II, or Nikon D3 were designed to be. Godfrey On Jun 12, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Bob W wrote: >> Unfortunately I've come to the conclusion that no manufacturer really >> makes cameras for photographers anymore, > > I haven't read the M8 article yet, but I do take issue with this > point. I think the top end Olympuses are very much photographers' > cameras. I suspect the same is true of the Nikons and Canons. I really > like my M3 and M4-2, but I haven't used them for ages, and I think my > Olympus E-1 is a much better camera than even my LX was, and there's > no doubt that the LX was a photographers' camera. -- 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.
