tigert.com | my life and stuff um, what do I write here?

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   neri
   March 16th, 2005 - 12:59

   hm, well, I understand the pain you have with dpreview, but whoever tried to write compareable reviews knows that it’s a reasonable aproach to fall back on technical specs. That’s what I like dpreview for – comparison.
   For everything else we have Michael and the Steinmuellers
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   neri
   March 17th, 2005 - 10:55

   tigert: unfortunately, you have choosen a bad example … I wear classes and thus I wanna know about eypoint and dioptric adjustment. Surely, these are not the primary criterias for choosing a camera, but indeed it’s good to know.

   To tell my point of view, when someone is looking for a new camera s/he should look at more than one review. dpreviews is doing just one of the possible approaches. Not necessarily the most suitable one for a device which is mostly used for emotionally driven tasks like photography. But from some perspectives, its still useful. IMHO, the only way to know if a camera suits for you is to get your hands on it and take a couple of pictures with it.

   PS. I have an Oly E-1 which is not the feature monster and definately not the king of specs
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   neri
   March 17th, 2005 - 14:53

   tigert: well I think we agree on the most point, most prominently on gems, btw

   To explain that dioptric adjustment issue, to let you see how things matter:
   I have exactly -3.0 (on left, and yes, I should use the right, but have never been really good at this cross focus thing ) which is mostly the limit, mostly and not always, and thus this damn stupid number which means nothing to most people is somewhat important to me, and I learned it the hard way.

   Once I bought an Nikon FM2 which I liked a lot, but hardly used it, cuz:
   - the eypoint is to low, so I couldn’t comfortably use it with glasses
   - a fix dioptirc lens for the view finder turned out to be a terrible unflexible thing because you don’t know where to put your glasses to when you take pictures or need to replace the lens when using contact lenses
   … but still I’m a sucker for the feeling of using that totally mechanical gem
4. 

   Carsten
   April 21st, 2005 - 11:59

   It’s definetly a fine camera. There’s been a “pretest” in a German photo magazine which sounds really good. This was not a technical test yet but some report by a photographer using this camera (the technical test will follow in the next edition).

   But one of the biggest problems I have yet with digital cameras is, that they’re pretty expensive to comparable analog models and that they’re outdated pretty soon too. Even if there’re successors to the Canon EOS 300 (which I use), I’m pretty sure that there’s no technical need for me to buy an analog successor the next years (but if I decide to switch to a “higher” class); with the 350D I expect there’ll be a succcessor in one and half year at the latest which has so many new/better features that I’d be tempted to buy…

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