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Luiz, where do you work? =)]]>May 13th 2008 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/
Imagine not being restricted to a single manufacturer due to one's investment in glass.

Off topic, I know...]]>May 13th 2008 3:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/
Modern mounts are the result of trying to do exactly what they do - keep you buying from the same company. The profit is made on the additional items. With the digital revolution, we're now seeing some of what the traditional cam co's are afraid of - new companies coming in and stealing some of their turf. Since the giant electronics companies (Sony, Matsushita, etc.) are the ones who are manufacturing the digital imaging electronics that the traditional body makers need for the new market, they're going to have to live with them entering camera industry as end product makers. This, however, is going to cause them to not just stick to the tendency toward making brand specific mounts, they're going to move toward making all the lines more "system" based in attempt to build some sort of automatic expansion. Gotta make that revenue up somewhere.

If anybody, the traditional electronics companies that are entering the still pic market are going to move toward a universal mount assuming an alliance with the non-body-producing lens makers. That would be aimed at the mid and lower range user - seems to me a company like Sigma would be partial to this. This would, in turn, push the traditional body makers to concentrate further on the higher end, to just putting their name on products that are actually built by the traditional elec co's, or just out of the game altogether.

Such are the ruminations of my hypothesy.]]>May 13th 2008 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/
One thing they need to do is drop that damn xD card. At least this camera handles both xD and CompactFlash, but they'd be better off supporting SD instead of xD or at least add SD.]]>May 13th 2008 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/May 13th 2008 3:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EF_lens_mount#Third-party_lenses - info comes from Wikipedia, tread with caution.]]>May 13th 2008 6:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/May 13th 2008 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/http://xrl.in/4uj]]>May 13th 2008 3:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/May 13th 2008 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/May 13th 2008 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/
I couldn't find any review comparing the Nikon/Canon vs. Olympus.

My colleague has E-510 and pretty happy with how it works.]]>May 13th 2008 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/
1. Kit IS lens for Canon 450D EF-S 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 IS (last diagram on page) - http://www.dpreview.com/lensreviews/canon_18-55_3p5-5p6_is_c16/page3.asp

2. Olympus E-510 IS test results (last diagram on page) - http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/olympuse510/page15.asp

In-lens IS seems to be about twice faster compared to sensor shift. On 1/10 and 1/5 exposures Oly produced correspondently about 50% and 20% usable pictures, while with Canon IS lens on 1/13 and 1/6 produced correspondently about 90% and 60% usable pictures.]]>May 13th 2008 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/
The Cannon lens was tested at 18 and 55mm, using a frim grip.

The Olympus was tested at 100mm and the photographer shot single handed to exagerate camera shake.

The results are useful, but not in direct comparison to each other. If these tests were to be compared, the only objective way to do so is by comparing the relative improvement each system achieved.

In that case, the Cannon at 55mm and 1/25 sec improved from 20% sharp images with IS off, to 80% sharp images with IS on.

By contrast, the Olympus at 100mm and 1/20 sec improved from 10% sharp images with IS off, to 80% sharp images with IS on.

That would indicate the Olympus IS system actually provided slightly greater stability than the Canon. But nether conclusion is definitive since the comparison was not head-to-head.

Suffice it to say that both systems were quite effective and will be a useful feature to owners of either camera.]]>Jun 14th 2008 2:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/13/olympus-e520-announced-previewed/Jul 30th 2008 5:18PM