Olympus launches micro 4/3 camera

In article , David J
Taylor says...
Alfred Molon wrote:
http://www.olympus-europa.com/consum...p=912222#intro

Warning - this Web site has "music" on many pages!

You can skip the intro.
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Alfred Molon
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Olympus 50X0, 8080, E3X0, E4X0, E5X0 and E3 forum at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/
http://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site

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Bob Williams wrote:
Pete D wrote:
"David J Taylor"
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David J Taylor wrote:
Alfred Molon wrote:
http://www.olympus-europa.com/consum...p=912222#intro
Warning - this Web site has "music" on many pages!

David
.. meaning that I, for one, will simply switch away from that site.

David

Quite seriously WTF were they thinking?

Beats the hell out of me! Have they never heard of a "Focus Group"?
A single focal length lens? Where's the need?

Looks like it's made to compete with the Sigma DP-1 and/or DP-2,
neither of which seemed to fill a niche that was crying out to be
filled.

It seems to have escaped you that the Olympus PEN is an
interchangeable-lens
camera based on the Micro 4/3 system, which means that it can use any 4/3
system lens, any lens that is adaptable to the 4/3 system (which among
others includes just about the whole Nikon range), and in addition can use
lenses such as those for the Leica M system that require a flange distance
too short for any SLR.



I am so glad they have done this, now I can use all my 4/3rds and M lenses
on a tiny camera, doesn't everyone need that?

On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:00:53 GMT, "David J Taylor"
wrote:

Alfred Molon wrote:
In article , David J
Taylor says...
Alfred Molon wrote:
http://www.olympus-europa.com/consum...p=912222#intro

Warning - this Web site has "music" on many pages!

You can skip the intro.

Yes, that's what I noticed as well, but you /still/ get the music. So I
switched away from the site. Style over content, no thanks.

David

Now you know why people won't bother gazing at photos with no worthwhile
content, no matter what camera they come from. Even if the very best
22-megapixels available by modern technology, the purest most exacting
colors, the highest resolution, the least noise. But if there's no
worthwhile content? What a total waste of everyone's effort, provider and
consumer included. Yet if a blurry and noisy B&W 640x480 image taken with a
toddler's Fisher-Price "Baby's First Digital-Camera" happened to have
valuable CONTENT it could surround the globe in a matter of moments, or
might fetch the highest bid ever from news agencies, or be proudly
upsampled to poster-size and displayed on some famous gallery wall for all
to see.

Any of you ever catch the resolution of the very first images of a
Bose-Einstein Condensate? Wasn't much, but it made a huge impact on the
world of science, technology, and digital imaging. And it brought us all
closer to understanding the how and why of our universe. Something that I
doubt any of you will ever do in your lifetimes. (I could easily win that
as a bet.)

Any of you catching on to what's really important in photography yet?

No?

I figured as much.

On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:42:01 -0700, John Navas wrote:

On 16 Jun 2009 15:15:47 GMT, ray wrote in
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On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:45:36 +0200, Alfred Molon wrote:

http://www.olympus-europa.com/consum...p=912222#intro

Cool. And it only takes about five minutes to load on a broadband
connection!!

Loaded in less than 30 seconds for me over 3G cellular.

I'm seldom patient enough to wait 30 seconds for a page to load. I must
KNOW that it has some information I REALLY want. Otherwise, I generally
give about 10 seconds and I'm gone. Don't know why folks would
intentionally limit their audience like that.

Alfred Molon wrote:
http://www.olympus-europa.com/consum...p=912222#intro

Olympus clutching at straws (again). The original half frame pen was
crap. The digital version of it has specifications almost guaranteeing
it will be too. When will this mob learn?

More future rubbish from a microscope maker. That about sums it up.

In article , David J
Taylor says...
Alfred Molon wrote:
You can skip the intro.

Yes, that's what I noticed as well, but you /still/ get the music. So I
switched away from the site. Style over content, no thanks.

My Lenovo Thinkpad has a button to switch off the sound.

But actually I just wanted to post the news. I don't understand why you
are so concerned about the music.
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Alfred Molon
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Olympus 50X0, 8080, E3X0, E4X0, E5X0 and E3 forum at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/
http://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site

In article 4a37f50a$0$32363$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-
01.iinet.net.au, Pete D says...

I am so glad they have done this, now I can use all my 4/3rds and M lenses
on a tiny camera, doesn't everyone need that?

I think the point with this camera is that you get a very compact camera
with interchangeable lenses and a large sensor (large if compared to
standard compact camera sensors). So you would want to use new micro 4/3
lenses.
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Alfred Molon
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Olympus 50X0, 8080, E3X0, E4X0, E5X0 and E3 forum at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/
http://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site

John Navas wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:00:53 GMT, "David J Taylor"
wrote
in :

Alfred Molon wrote:
In article , David
J Taylor says...
Alfred Molon wrote:
http://www.olympus-europa.com/consum...p=912222#intro

Warning - this Web site has "music" on many pages!

You can skip the intro.

Yes, that's what I noticed as well, but you /still/ get the music.
So I switched away from the site. Style over content, no thanks.

Actually content + style, and easily turned off, so switching is
silly.

You may think it silly. There is /no/ option to turn off the sound. It
lost Olympus my view.

David

Alfred Molon wrote:
In article , David J
Taylor says...
Alfred Molon wrote:
You can skip the intro.

Yes, that's what I noticed as well, but you /still/ get the music.
So I switched away from the site. Style over content, no thanks.

My Lenovo Thinkpad has a button to switch off the sound.

But actually I just wanted to post the news. I don't understand why
you are so concerned about the music.

Alfred,

I object strongly to anything which affects my acoustic environment. I
have my PC set up for sounds from certain events and programs, and
therefore I don't want to have to turn my sound on and off just to suit
the whims of some marketing types. You will note that most Media Player
programs offer a mute button, and many Web sites which have a sound have a
similar mute button in consideration for their users. Even this site as a
skip intro, as you note.

As this site does not offer similar consideration, I choose not to view
it. A pity, as I might actually be interested in the information it
contains. I looked at DP Review instead.

My concern about the unstoppable music is for others who might also care
about their acoustic environment.

David

John Navas wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:32:25 GMT, "David J Taylor"
wrote
in :

John Navas wrote:

Actually content + style, and easily turned off, so switching is
silly.

You may think it silly. There is /no/ option to turn off the sound.
It lost Olympus my view.

Your computer has no hardware or software volume or mute control?
Really? What OS are you running?!

Please see my other post. There is no option on those Web pages to remove
the sound. It is inconsiderate for potential visitors.

David