Don White wrote:
"Boater" wrote in message
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Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:54:11 -0500, HK wrote:

Don White wrote:
"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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Well, I gone and dun it...

http://tinyurl.com/5wr2q3

Should be here on Friday.

Now I need to sell my 300 and 330 before Mrs. Wave finds out.

This could be a problem... :)
Those Olympic people won't be happy that you've deserted them.

Do you think the 4/3 system is a good compromise between full sized
SLRs and the tiny compact camera CMOS?
No. The original 4/3'rds didn't really catch on. There is no reason to
suspect the newly revised version will, either.
Where do you come up with this crap? Talk to fashion and outdoors
photographers sometime about what they use in reality - Canon or
Olympus E-1s and now E-3s.

Keep following the herd Harry - that's what you seem to be really good
at.

Moron.

Interesting. The fashion and outdoors photographers I know, and I hire
some every year, use Hasselblads, Nikons, and Canons. The architectual
photographers are using Hasselblads and 4x5's. I can't even recall the
last time I saw a working commercial photographer using an Olympus. Next
time you see a presidential "photo op," see if there are very many, if
any, Olympus cameras among the pros.

For a product like a professional SLR to "catch on," it has to have market
share. Among working photographers, what do you suppose the Olympus market
share is? No one out there is competing in a serious fashion with Nikon
and Canon.

I'm not knocking Olympus technology or quality. As I previously stated,
they make fine camera. When I state they haven't caught on, I mean market
share.

I see no reason to be iconoclastic when it comes to cameras. Nikons and
Canons are good enough for me.

When I was downtown visiting Atlantic Photo, the oldest 'real photo store'
in this area, the guy told me that the local professionals use either Nikon
or Canon cameras.



That's true pretty much everywhere, except among the photogs shooting
larger format...2-1/4, 6x7, 4x5. Despite what you see on TV movies, most
fashion photography is NOT shot on 35mm film or digital cameras.

The national geo still photographers use nikons and canons almost
exclusively. The gal photog I use for west coast photography works
freelance for geo these days, and her travel cameras are Nikons. She
shoots Hasselblads for the "Good Stuff" indoors, and has an assistant to
wrestle with the gear and lights.

Once again, I am not knocking Olympus cameras. They just don't have much
market share in the top pro segment.

It's funny, but when I was commissioning a lot of architectural
photography, the very best photographers used 4x5 film almost
exclusively and 2-1/4 when space was limited or they had to move fast.
Hardly anyone used 35mm, and I believe 35mm film has significantly
higher megapixels, as it were, than the best of today's more common
digital SLRs.

Digital is still catching up with film.