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DCResource Previews Olympus Olympus E-300/Evolt
DCResource have published a preview of the new Olympus Olympus E-300/Evolt DSLR (UK price £699 with a lens).
“The Olympus EVOLT E-300 (it’s just called the E-300 outside of the U.S.) is the first consumer digital SLR to use the FourThirds system. The FourThirds system (co-developed by Olympus, Fuji, and Kodak) was first seen on the Olympus E-1, which was released last year. The E-300 takes many of the same features used on the E-1, removes a few manual controls, slows things down a bit, and boosts the resolution from five to eight million pixels. The E-300 has a rather unique design (to say the least), and build quality isn’t quite as nice as the E-1.”
Website: DCResource - Olympus Evolt Preview
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#1 Marco F.
Unique design? *not*
Remember the APS SLRs? Especially the minolta vectis(?) looks almost identical..
7:39 am - Tuesday, November 9, 2004
#2 Alex
Its trying my patience to see this claim of Olympus to have a unique design in the Evolt repeated uncritically erywhere. The facts: the very same sideways slung prism system was earlier used in the Minolta Vectis APS SLR, as it was in the digital version, the RD3000. Incidentally, there is another myth about, that Minolta is only now bringing out its first digital SLR, not only had they the RD3000 some years ago, but a digital version of the Dynax 500si, the RD175, came out in 96! ( I have two ). But going back to the Evolt, not only was the optical design previously used by Minolta, it is also found in the Pentax EI2000 digital SLR ( of which I have only one ) in which it features a pellicular mirror that permits vibration-less shooting and viewing on the monitor throughout the cycle, similar to an E10, so Olympus got that bit first. Why dont they use that E10 detail in these new SLRS? Is it because the "gimmick" of an old-fashioned mirror is expected to sucker people into believing its a more "serious" camera? The same question is true of all the digital SLR's.
Anyway, I am really tired of an industry that seems to think we are all ten year olds with a memory of eighteen-months!
Bye.
10:19 pm - Tuesday, November 30, 2004