On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 04:47:54PM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: > This link showed up in my mailbox today, Adorama's review of the > OMD EM-1: > http://www.adorama.com/ALC/BlogArticle.aspx?googleid=0014299&alias=Olympus-OM-D-E-M1-Hands-On&utm_source=RSYS&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Email090913OlympusNPA&j=Email090913OlympusNPA
Hmm. I'm pretty sure that I will be buying one of these. I've said my next camera would be the replacement for the current OM-D; I see nothing about the features for this camera to change my mind. It probably won't be cheap (especially with the f/2.8 zoom lens), but I find myself carrying the E-PL1 quite a bit nowadays and leaving the K-5 at home, even though the E-PL1 does have more than a few annoying habits. > > They, of course, say little if anything bad about it. If I were going > u4/3, I would get the latest sensor available. > > My guess is that with a sensor several years newer than the K-5, the IQ > will approach that of the K-5. With half the sensor area, the sensors > will be one or two "Moore's cycles" behind what can be done on APS. > > As I mentioned earlier, we seem to be in the middle of camera announcement > season, so if you can hold off buying something new for a couple of months, > you'll probably get a lot more benefit than waiting a couple of months > if it were June. When new models come out, you have your choice of > better performance, or good deals on the last generation. > > Alternatvely, if u4/3 looks like the way you want to go, you can pick > up a cheap used "second body" now. One that is a couple generations old, > and which will do fine in bright light (under ISO 800), then in six months > or so start looking at the new OMD EM1, or whatever. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
