Why Olympus DSLR

why oly?

two reasons: fast (f/2.0) apertures on their "super hi-grade" lenses -- at a premium cost; and 2x mag factor -- for telephoto uses such as wildlife, the sigma 50-500 (available in 4/3rds mount) becomes a whopping 100-1000mm zoom.

 

oly's still developing its line, and panasonic/leica don't offer much variation currently, while so far only sigma makes 3rd party glass. but in a couple of years, the 4/3rds format selection should be much better than it is now, maybe even enough to intrigue a canonite or nikonian who wants longer reach and faster apertures.

 

in the meantime, oly appear to have addressed the shortcomings of the e-500 with the e510, although they can only hope all the folks who bought e500 2-lens kits will stay on board rather than jump ship.

The latest DPreview of the Nikon D40x has comparison shots to the E410 (subject to a forthcoming review), and the Olympus camera unfortunately blew out highlights when the neither the D40x not EOS 400D did under identical circumstances.

 

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond40x/page22.asp

 

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond40x/page21.asp

 

Even in RAW, "the improvement in the E-410 image is somewhat less than the D40X."

 

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond40x/page24.asp

I am an advanced amatuer going to be getting paid for my work soon, I chose the oly system for many reasons, quality of the glass, physical size of the complete system is small and lightwegiht, the images are amazing. overall im way more impressed with my e500 than with my moms xt. the canon lens is totally crappy.

 

and jacob, take dpreview with a very large grain of salt, that guy is so bias'ed, its not funny, they did a test of the e300 and put it against the 20d canon, which is 800 dollars more expensive, and the e300 clearly produced better color pictures, but he shot it down...i dont even go to that site only to look at the test pictures. its so funny, the pictures of oly and other brands are clearly better in color and he always says, the canon produced better colors.

 

and he could have doctored the "blown highlight" pictures to do just that to. When I was new to the photography scene, I took his word as gospel, NOT ANYMORE! as I said earlier, i dont even visit that site anymore because in his eyes, if its not N or C, its garbage. which is totally false.

Dust or lack of it is why I bought Olympus. The Olympus dust removal system works. Others now offer similar system. Don't consider system without Sensor cleaning built in.

hello evry one! my be E- system is not good camera but i think evry thing is depend on your need , i m going for formet like tiff. no other camrea is giving tiff formet accept E-500 , i know u can make tiff. from raw , but if u taking nice pictuer and u like to send that directaly for printing or publishing , then u can send your pictuers directaly from E-500 but fromother model u must take in raw then convert in tiff. then sent it for printing / publishing.. i m taking pictuers of art objects .. and some time monuments.. and its netural color mode is giving film quality pictuers.. more or less i m happy with this camera. other then E-500 i used XT rebail and penasonic FZ30, FZ50 also .. ! i m not happy with color of XT rebail ... me be i m not good on that camera, olym have nice body, and custum seting , nice white balancing .. i made my own satings.. ! i never posted any thing at this site but i will uplode some pictuer soon here.. !

bye

Most pros seem to do fine without built-in dust removal. They just periodically remove dust manually, which you'll have to do anyway, eventually, with the Olympus too.

Maybe Jacob, but it's been two years that I've owned my E500 and I haven't had to do any dust removal yet. (nor any spot removal from my photos). I guess, it all boils down to how often you want to do it. Me? I want to do it as little as possible.

Point is, it's (a) not a necessity, (b) it's not hard to do manually, and © pros seem to have no problem without it. So the argument "Dust or lack of it is why I bought Olympus" seems overblown and a little silly to me.