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Personally I have one SD card in a laptop, and various Memory Stick Pro Duos (32MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 8GB) for my PSP that I now mostly use for my Sony point & shoot, so it's worked out well for me... what would be dumb is if they forced it to take a new kind of mem stick.
Put this on the wait list. I wouldn't be surprised if, in answer to new offerings by Nikon and Canon, Olympus does what it did on the 520 and bundles it with 2 lenses.
The thing with dSLRs is you're not buying a camera; you're buying into a system. If you have a bunch of Nikon lenses, you should be buying a Nikon body. Same for Canon. You only get choice when you are buying in.
Also, Olympus uses a proprietary cable and RAW format. If you want RAW, it has to go through their (undercooked) software. The cable is less of a problem because you can put your card into the computer and charge with the external battery. But the software is a bit of a pain. Sluggish and poorly laid out.
Every manufacturer has their own proprietary RAW format. Olympus works just fine with any RAW converter that supports the camera. It's no different than Nikon, Canon, Sony, etc.
I am quite happy with my E-520. It's got a good heft to it (good tech feels solid and not plastic-y), does a fine job taking pictures, gives me the option of LiveView if I want to use it (I don't - it's an SLR), and, for the price was a good value. I'm saving up for the pancake lens. Considering it's my first dSLR (and my first SLR since my old Pentax K1000), I'm very happy.
But I wouldn't abandon gear for it. If I had Nikon or Canon with all the attendant gear, I wouldn't switch for an Oly. Hopefully, more manufacturers will support 4/3.
@Scaramanga: well said... too many people bash one product model versus another based on feature set alone. The seem to forget that various models are designed to appeal to certain duty requirements and applications.
Some people bash my D70, versus other models, but in the price range (when purchased) it had the feature set that covered the range of needs I had at the time. It's been an outstanding camera that still serves me well.
The D3 and D3x are way beyond my range, but both look to be amazing cameras.
@CafeRacer1200: While it may fit, you would lose a great deal of the DSLR feature set including auto focus, auto ISO, metering, and countless others. Not a deal breaker, probably, but certainly diminishing the gadgety-ness of the D3x in the process.
05/18/09
05/18/09
SDHC too.
Personally I have one SD card in a laptop, and various Memory Stick Pro Duos (32MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 8GB) for my PSP that I now mostly use for my Sony point & shoot, so it's worked out well for me... what would be dumb is if they forced it to take a new kind of mem stick.
02/24/09
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02/24/09
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02/24/09
The thing with dSLRs is you're not buying a camera; you're buying into a system. If you have a bunch of Nikon lenses, you should be buying a Nikon body. Same for Canon. You only get choice when you are buying in.
Also, Olympus uses a proprietary cable and RAW format. If you want RAW, it has to go through their (undercooked) software. The cable is less of a problem because you can put your card into the computer and charge with the external battery. But the software is a bit of a pain. Sluggish and poorly laid out.
02/24/09
Every manufacturer has their own proprietary RAW format. Olympus works just fine with any RAW converter that supports the camera. It's no different than Nikon, Canon, Sony, etc.
02/24/09
I am quite happy with my E-520. It's got a good heft to it (good tech feels solid and not plastic-y), does a fine job taking pictures, gives me the option of LiveView if I want to use it (I don't - it's an SLR), and, for the price was a good value. I'm saving up for the pancake lens. Considering it's my first dSLR (and my first SLR since my old Pentax K1000), I'm very happy.
But I wouldn't abandon gear for it. If I had Nikon or Canon with all the attendant gear, I wouldn't switch for an Oly. Hopefully, more manufacturers will support 4/3.
11/28/08
I'm sure many people will say the D3 is better because its high-ISO performance, low-noise in low-light, etc but those people are missing the point.
Good pro equipment does what its designed to do extremely well. Both the D3 and D3x do their respective duties excellently.
11/28/08
Some people bash my D70, versus other models, but in the price range (when purchased) it had the feature set that covered the range of needs I had at the time. It's been an outstanding camera that still serves me well.
The D3 and D3x are way beyond my range, but both look to be amazing cameras.
11/28/08
11/28/08
11/28/08
11/28/08