E-3 - obszerny opis

[KaarooL]

dla podjaranych mniej lub bardziej:

http://www.biofos.com/esystem/e_3ult.html

[P]

the viewfinder is much bigger than the E1 VF but as bright after a side-by-side comparison with 11-22mm on both cameras. Interestingly, I felt that I had to 'explore' the E3 VF with my eye rather than just being able to see everything immediately, as with the smaller E1 VF. I suspect a better eye-cup (circular EP-1 style) allowing you to push your eye closer to the VF would be better than the existing square one. The overall impression of the VF was excellent, much closer to the film SLR experience.

Przynajmniej to się wyjaśniło. Niejednoznaczne doniesienia z Pepubliki Czeskiej zasiały bowiem w niejednym sercu ziarno wątpliwości

[suchar]

I'm incredibly frustrated by the delay in sharing images from the E-3 with you, but I can assure you that the out of camera jpegs have taken the legendary E-1 colour tonality, improved on it, and delivered pixel level sharp 10MP resolution. I'm just looking at a shot of Stephen Elliott's cat, shot with this pre-production E-3 in RAW using Studio v2.1... and it's so exciting to see the pin sharp detail - the fur and whiskers going down to individual pixels!

That should be all any Olympus E-1 user would want to know. Shooting in auto ISO, allowing the camera to ramp up to 800 ISO was not a concern to me... the quality holds up easily to 800 ISO with fine, film grain style noise.

There's a lot of nonsense discussion about dynamic range, partly fueled, I think, by dpreview's poor DR test methodology, as exposed by Jay Turberville and others... what I did experience was a dreadful overcast Friday morning, you know - where you shoot anything with sky and can expect either blown sky or ridiculously underexposed ground detail. The E-3 gave me a well exposed, balanced image which coped perfectly with the scene - I don't know whether this was DR, shadow adjustment technology or what, but I was very impressed.

Further, I came back from that overcast stroll with zero expectations, but was surprised to have two or three images that I was very happy with... this camera delivers on the promise. A worthy successor to the legendary E-1.

Czyli zapowiada się dobrze. Jeszcze trochę i sami będziemy mogli mając ORF-y wyrobić sobie własną opinię. z00m już zamówił E-3, więc pewnie coś wie

Controls:
Anyone coming from an existing E-series camera will instantly feel at home with the E-3. It seems to have taken the best features from the existing cameras and incorporated them here. The controls felt solid and reliable, I'd say more so than the E-1.
Large and bright, again an improvement on the E-1. I liked the shooting info along the bottom, but as a glasses wearer did find I had to 'look around' the viewfinder more than the existing E-series line-up. I guess that's just an issue with a bigger viewfinder.
LCD:
Loved the tilt-swivel LCD, but have a worry about how solid it will be when flipped out. I can see it being caught easily, and wonder how strong the joint is? But otherwise a joy to use.
Liveview:
Hmm.......... As an E-330 user, I still feel it's not an ideal implementation, and much prefer the A-mode version with proper autofocus. I find the E-3 (and E-410) versions to be too clunky, though OK for landscape and still-life I guess.
Build:
On the whole, pretty solid, though I do wonder about the plastic CF card door? Maybe it's just designed to break and be replaced, but it seems to let the camera down. Please Olympus, remove the 'IS' logo from the front
AF:
Coudn't fault it, though as someone used to using one AF point, I've no idea how easy it will be to use in anger! But the speed and accuracy seemed great.