I find it far more attractive than the glorified Altoids tin they were showing off before. It's actually got an ergonomic design, and a layout similar to the classic Pen FT half-frame SLR. The Altoids Tin was an awful design, with just about every major ergonomic issue with P&S's (hard to grip, chiclet buttons, lack of external controls)
_Adam On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Bertil Holmberg<[email protected]> wrote: > What beats me is how ugly the finished product is compared to the clean and > cute lines of the yellow & silver concept model shown earlier this year. I > don't think I would like to own and use something this revolting... > > Regards, > Bertil > > 16 jun 2009 kl. 14:07 skrev [email protected]: > >> http://www.dpreview.com/news/0906/09061601olympusep1.asp >> >> Hopefully this is not old news. Personally, I think this would be a >> good camera for Galia and me as well. Suddenly I realize that I could >> use great many interesting lenses on this camera (with certain >> limitations such as 2x crop factor). Nonetheless, this year seems to >> be significant w.r.t. new interesting introductions by major camera >> manufacturers (new FF DSLRs, Pentax K-7, and now this Olympus 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. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
