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Brian C. Baird wrote:
In article 3xwKc.122954$Oq2.35285@attbi_s52, dy says... That's usually irrelevant. Absolute top quality isn't usually a marketable feature. The market only cares if it's good enough. Most of the time "good enough" isn't the state-of-the-art. Sure... until you lose business to someone who can do images you *can't*. That is the point - you have to know your business and fit the tools for it. If I lose business because I don't have the right tool, either have haven't focused my business properly or I don't have the right tool. If I'm a photojournalist, I don't need a EOS 1Ds. It's way overkill for the final image. Does that mean I buy and use a 1Ds - just in case I want to compete outside my professional area of expertise? If so, I'm spending more money and carrying more weight than I need to. That isn't very smart. An E-1 will work just fine for most photojournalism uses. It weighs less (and that is important in PJ) and costs less. I can buy 3 E-1 bodies for the price of one EOS 1D MII. Having the backups is way more important than having the 3 extra MP that I'll never use. Of course, there are other considerations and variations that need to come into play. If someone will be letting you use their Canon or Nikon lenses, that could be a big issue. If you are shooting for National Geographic, you will need more pixels. (I don't shoot for them.) There are plenty of other pro careers that can make excellent use of the E-1. Certainly not all types of pros would find that the best tool, but some would. For example, MY wedding business finds it the ideal tool. There may be some weddings businesses that would want the extra pixels of the 1Ds. There are plenty of wedding businesses that insist that MF film is still the tool that is needed; those people very well might put a 20-25 MP back on those MF bodies in the future. My point is that your blanket statements that the E-1 is never the right tool is closed-minded, ignorant, and/or just plain stupid. Your mostly irrelevant and anal technical arguments don't do anything to support it either. The Olympus is a pro tool that will be the best tool for many pro photographers. True, it will probably be a minority, but there is nothing wrong with that. I'm pretty sure that Olympus has figured all that into its market plan. Clyde |
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