[LRflex] Lympa Lives!
- From: David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:26:20 -0800
Gary Todoroff has praised the performance of the Lympa for a long
time now. And the recent E3 shots posted by Steve Barbour have also
been of exceptional quality.
So much so, that I just had to take a look at the new Olympus E-3.
I went, last Wednesday, to the store, intending to add two Canon
lenses to my LeiCanon 30D. I walked out with the E3 and two Oly
lenses, instead!
Is it perfection? I doubt it. But it has the brightest, easiest to
see finder I've used since the R8/9. Very easy on my failing
eyeballs. :-) It's large, but comfortable to hold (even Rose finds
it a delight, despite it's weight.) And the lenses are incredibly
bulky for a small sensor'd camera. But the optics appear to be very
close to Leica's, and the build quality of both lenses and body seems
excellent.
The 50~200 f2.8~3.5 zoom is incredibly good and with the 1.4x
converter (on it's way to me, as I write) will yield a FOV equivalent
to a 560 f4.5 AF lens! And the Telyt will work, with focus
confirmation (or at least, it will, as soon as my FC-Leica-R to
4/3rds adapter arrives) & IS!
Yes, Doug, I know.... Manual focus is still better, but my eyes are
getting to a state where my failure rate with MF is huge! AF seems
the way for me to go, and the R10 + all new Leica glass is beyond my
financial reach.
For those who are interested, a 1/2 size jpg is at
http://www.furnfeather.net/Temps/Riff.htm This shot was taken, hand
held, at 200mm at 1/45th of a second. I'm quite pleased with it!
Be warned that this is a 1.5mb jpg ... so you'll need either
high-speed internet access, or a lot of patience!
More, of course, to follow.
Cheers!
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David Young,
Logan Lake, CANADA
Limited Edition Prints at: www.furnfeather.net
Personal Web-site at: www.main.furnfeather.net
Stock Photography at: http://tinyurl.com/2amll4
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