11-07-2009, 18:58 | #1 |
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Olympus Pen
Well, I thought this was going to be the camera I was waiting for all my life. Compact body with removeable lenses like an SLR, but I find there's no viewfinder so I'm totally disappointed because I can't get used to using an LCD screen to shoot with. It's just almost there but not quite and at £700 I can't live with that, so I'll stick with my trusty 350D for now.
Review here: http://www.dpreview.com/previews/olympusep1/ (I haven't read it properly yet) What are your opinions?
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11-07-2009, 19:06 | #2 |
Bananaman
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Isn't that the point with the micro four thirds standard though, the way its designed is to save space they lose the penta prism which means you can't physicall have a view finder...
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11-07-2009, 19:09 | #3 |
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I can't work out what the originals had, but they don't seem to have a viewing window off to the side of the lens so I can only guess they looked through the viewfinder. If that's the case then it's a shame they can't squeeze it in the digi model. I guess it's what the market demands though.
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11-07-2009, 19:11 | #4 |
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Yeah i guess thats your choice, you choose full size with a real viewfinder, or a new standard much smaller but lose it to shave that space... In fact reading that article has a great little picture pointing out the obvious physical difference inside. Still they're promising, but obviously not going to replace a typical four thirds right now...
Looking at that picture i'm not entirely sure what the physical limitations are but as you can see its deliberately missing the penta prism |
11-07-2009, 19:21 | #5 |
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That is indeed the point of Micro Four Thirds. They've done away with the mirror box and shortened the focus distance to allow them to use a smaller body. The Panasonic G1 (another micro four-thirds interchangeable lens camera) gets around this by using an EVF.
I'm not sure how they could solve that one as you can't even use a straight through viewfinder because of the interchangeable lenses. |
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