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 New on Digital SLR Cameras? September 17, 2005
Paul P.R (Paterson, NJ USA / Miami, FL 33166 USA/CCS , Vnzla)
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
I had a C-3000Z Oly, good pictures and durability, but slow and you can find only 128M Smart Media Card in the market, no more, then I decided to change: Canon?, Nikon?, Konica? mmmm Olympus!
This is my first Digital SLR Camera,so I`m studying this product and benefits, in the future, I`ll have a concrete opinion about this, but is there a small, thin and lite SLR Digital Camera like the SP-350 and SP-500 UZ Oly ??
If you want to know about E300 Oly "in lab and test" visit:
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Nice Digi SLR camera with this price February 20, 2005
Jun Gao
1 out of 27 found this review helpful
Nice pictures, good price, bring me total different feeling comparing with my other digi cameras.
 love this camera October 8, 2005
W. Goodman (NY USA)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
i did lots of researching, internet and stores, on most of the novice friendly slrs's out there. i really wanted the canon rebel xt because it's the lightest one out there and pretty sharp looking. when i was unwilling to pay the price i took a serious look at the olympus e300. it's not as pretty as the rebel but there are still many reasons to love this camera! i actually like that it looks like the cameras of yester-year! kind of clunky but has all the great new digital features we're all yearning for now. i love that it can be completely manual, totally automatic and anywhere in between. i love the fact that you can buy just the body, the body with one lens or the body with 2 lenses. it's always been a pain even with the 35mm's that you have to get each component like the filters and flash but we should all be used to that by now! i've only owned the camera for a couple of weeks so i haven't yet explored all the possiblities but just tinkering with it i have taken some pretty good shots. it's a pretty cool camera.
ps - batteries, flashes, oem cases can all be checked out at e-bay. i got some pretty good deals on the accessories.
Nearly Perfect December 17, 2004
Rolf Bertram (Anna Maria Island, FL USA)
33 out of 44 found this review helpful
I compare the Evolt to the E20, which I owned for several years. In comparison, the Evolt looks like this:
1) Very lightweight.
2) Much higher dynamic range (in RAW), contrast, sharpness, shot to shot speed. No Photoshop sharpening required.
3) The nice E20 Manual/Auto Zoom switch is missing, but can be programed on the OK button.
4) Viewfinder shutter switch missing. Instead a tiny piece of plastic has to be slid manually over the viewfinder.
Really superslow is the solution for viewfinder shutter, which was a switch on the E20. That was excellent if you use it every few second for tripod shots with wired remote. Taking 100 shots in one hour you can just use the switch 100 times to look through the viewfinder. The Evolt on the other hand requires to peel of the rubber ring from the viewfinder and slide on a tiny plastic cover, which also could drop and disappear in the sand in a millisecond. This procedure is not suitable for being done every few seconds over and over again. That limits my usuall way of shooting with a tripod and a wired remote, checking the viewfinder for every shot. This is not possible with this camera the way it comes. But I will make my own viewfinder cover which should be removable in a fraction of a second, and put on again also as quickly, without removing the rubber-eyepiece.
The lens, when fully zoomed out, can be wiggled around for about 1mm in each direction up/down/sideways on the lens hood. This is also different from the E20, where nothing would extend when zooming. Everything happend completly inside and enclosed. I did not see any picture quality issues or dust-proof problems on the Evolt related to this yet.
Olympus reduced the price compared to the E1 to half, in order to enter the amateur market. Therefore they had to reduce production cost and leave out some convenience features, like viewfinder shutter switch, manual/auto-zoom switch, basic information LCD on top of the camera. But they still have dead pixel mapping in the camera menue, which is really good.
RAW to 16bit TIFF conversion is at this point of time in December 2004 only available in the Olympus Studio Software.
Rolf Bertram
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Solid performer at a nice pricepoint (~800). August 5, 2005
JAB (SLC, UTAH)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
While I wouldn't consider the E-300 a direct competitor to the EOS20 (much more expensive)its performance is a little behind the REBELXT in some aspects (burst capacity & images@ISO800+) IT IS ALSO HUNDRED$ LESS.
For most uses, this camera provides essentially the same performance as its pricier competitors!
I recently upgraded to the E-300 from the C-8080WZ (an incredible/versatile workhorse)and have been quite impressed with the nicer features present in the E-300.
Major noticeable differences between the C-8080 and E-300: Zoom control(mechanical ring)!!, Shutter Release speed, speedier autofocus, CF write speed!!!, speed in working with RAW files, 10+ excellent preset scene shooting modes (Sunset, Night, Fireworks, Beach/snow,...) to help even a beginner produce great looking images.
In short, this is a great camera for the money (~$800) but if you are really picky or you want lots of high ISO shots you'd be happier spending $200 more for a bit nicer camera.
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