so cheap, no reason to buy prosumer anymore.


http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetai...test%5Fcookie=1

The Olympus Evolt E500 8.0MP SLR Digital Camera features 25 shooting modes, 15 scene modes and 10 exposure modes easily achieved with the included Two Lens Kit. Each pristine Zuiko digital-specific lens is perfectly matched to the camera's image sensor 14m - 45mm lens.

Good price without stock also no use. Anyway, most probably they are clearing stock for the new E-510.

Sale started Friday. Gone by 10 am Saturday.

it shud be rm2500 in malaysia ... i think vladimir selling it ..

the system i tried.. its made in china... pretty solid tho

e510 shud be nice cos it comes with in-camera image stabilization.. so watever lens u get later on is image stabilized

1 thing good about olympus is that its fully digital

I'm not sure what you mean by "fully digital".

A long time ago, Olympus made the very compact 'OM' series of film SLRs.

After changing from marketing film SLRs to digital SLRs, a lot of the old film lenses cannot be used without adapters and fully manual as they are. The new 'digital' lenses are limited in selection and availability in the 2nd-hand market.

Canon and Nikon users benefit from a wider selection of lenses stretching back from the film-era SLRs, and are all auto-focus capable -maybe with the exception of the Nikon D40, D40x.

er as in they have circuits in their lenses? tats wat i heard frm the guy in the camera shop...

there's 14% tax not included in the listed price

Olympus Digital Lenses, means that the lens has a smaller inner diameter with anti reflective coating on the inner side (because digital sensor can reflect a certain amount of light) and is made to match the 4/3rd imaging sensor size instead of the normal 35mm film size (unlike Canon or Nikon).

Pentax also has the digital only lens, which is their DA series (which can't be fitted on a 35mm film SLR or serious vignetting will occur), Olympus system should be similar.

Nowadays most lenses have IC chips embedded with the MTF data which will assist the camera in choosing the right aperture settings for maximum details.

Almost all auto focus Nikon lenses can be fitted on the current DSLR as their mount have not seen much changes despite the tehcnological advances (exception to D40), whereas for Canon, you have a wide range of lenses to select from so the usage of old lenses might not even matter.

do they have "live" preview viewing on digital screen?/ that would be an advantage...as i know now only a few units cann do that......and most dslr need to look through the viewfinder rather than on the lcd screen

Yeah ... good luck in buying more DIGITAL lenses later on

Honestly, if u compare FOV to FOV.
Olympus lenses are not as expensive as most people think.
At this moment, I felt the used Nikon lens in M'sia is overpriced.
Cos the demand's high due to more & more ppl picking up dSLR.
And the newbies are very aggressive in building up lens collection, thanks to all those opinions & suggestions.

Just to let you know, my old Zuiko OM 50mm f/1.8 prime lens is also multicoated and is very effective in suppressing reflection between the lens elements my E-330's image sensor. Multicoats (aka. anti-reflective coating) has been around for a very long time already.

Even though the lens elements in the so-called for-digital lenses are smaller because they are designed to just nicely cast the image circle onto the 4/3-rd's or APS-C or whatever image sensor size, the addition of on-board focussing servo motors eat up the additional space and negate any weight savings. Just compare Olympus Zuiko Digital lenses with rival manufacturer's lenses of the same actual focal length ranges.

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Added on May 9, 2007, 10:26 pmI would think this is only useful if the DSLR user plans to shoot mostly in 'P' mode ... but by then, I think that kind of defeats the purpose of having a camera with wealth of manual overrides...

What I heard is that on every Zuiko Digital lens, the on-board chip has unique calibration data that is fed to the camera body to achieve optimal focussing.



This post has been edited by cjtune: May 9 2007, 10:26 PM