http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/ Engadget Comments for Olympus fills the E-520/E-3 gap with the E-30 DSLR http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/Nov 4th 2008 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/cause i have yet to see anyone with one. lol]]>Nov 4th 2008 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/Nov 4th 2008 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/Nov 4th 2008 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/Nov 4th 2008 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/
The image quality is a lot better than naysayers will have you believe. It reviews very well against Canon and Nikon. You don't have to get special image stabilization lenses like you do for those cameras because it is built into the body. Noise at high ISOs has gotten A LOT better with the E 510 and newer cameras (E520, E3, E420). DPreview has always given them "Highly Recommended" ratings.]]>Nov 4th 2008 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/
An e-500 and an e-420. I have had no problems with either one. Between the two I've shot over 80k pictures and I've kept over a third of them because i could not find any real flaws in there picture quality. Most of those shots deleted were my fault not the cameras and i think that's saying something. There just so easy to use that your not constantly fighting the controls to get what you want out of your camera.]]>Nov 4th 2008 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/
much better bang for the buck back in the day when it was bought when you compare it to canon, nikon, and konica minolta when they sold DSLRs

so many features and so easy to use...although the sluggish autofocus on my 18-180mm f3.5-5.6 lens gets to me a lot...]]>Nov 4th 2008 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/
Their lens quality is a bigger advantage than their cameras, but the e3 is a very fine camera in its own right..

This new model seems strange to me though, they are just going to cannibalize their own e3 sales, the price is just too high..]]>Nov 5th 2008 5:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/
Bought into 4/3 just because was lazy to grok all the compatibility cruft about Canon/Nikon/3rd party lenses. With 4/3 it's much easier: if you see 4/3 logo - than it is compatible. And http://www.four-thirds.org/en/ even let's you match lens to your body to see how it would look. (What can be really entertaining when checking pro lens e.g. ZD 14-35 on compact body e.g. E-420)

Though twilight performance could have been better, I can hardly complain.

JPEG quality is outstanding: for several weeks shot in JPEG without (1) realizing that and (2) ever running into the need to correct something.]]>Nov 5th 2008 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/
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This camera is pointless in the Olympus line-up, although I'm sure it'll be good, much like all of Olympus' lenses, and most of their cameras.

]]>Nov 4th 2008 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/
Link: http://www.techdealdigger.com/deals/canon-eos-rebel-xs-101-mp-479-at-dell-home--home-office/4770 ]]>Nov 4th 2008 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/]]>Nov 4th 2008 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/With regard to RBoyett's comment, I agree completely. There's not much of a price diff there, and B&H has E-3s for $1100 at the moment. My guess is that the actual retail price will fall in at just under a grand. Maybe just over with some 2.8 glass.
Darkstar, I hear ya, but we're out here!
Personally, I can't wait to get my hands on this thing. Might be my next purchase, as I find myself wanting IS more and more.]]>Nov 4th 2008 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/http://www.amazon.com/Olympus-Digital-Stabilization-14-42mm-40-150mm/dp/B000NVXF30/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1225816121&sr=8-1

I bought one of these six months ago and couldn't be happier with it.]]>Nov 4th 2008 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/Nov 4th 2008 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/
I have a 510 and I like it a lot, mainly because I like to hike and lugging 20Lbs of camera equipment is not an option, but only having a P&S is too much of a waste. The only things I see as downsides are the high noise at greater than 400 ISO and the slow focusing (with the kit lenses at least).

Other than that, the 4/3 lenses could be cheaper. Meh.]]>Nov 4th 2008 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/
My D300 is absolute rubbish if I leave it on the default contrast, sharpness, and colour saturation settings. In fact, I'd say it was the worst camera I have ever used. However, after I adjusted the settings, the results have been outstanding. Every D300 owner knows that the default settings are unusable, and yet you'd never see it using the method that DPReview, DCResource, etc, use to test their cameras. You can't see how bad it is until you start photographing people, landscapes, etc.

Olympus' cameras can be tweaked to create some incredible photos. Also, I like the 4/3rd ratio for people photos. Normally, I need to crop my photos to that ratio, which means my images aren't 12 MP anyway.]]>Nov 4th 2008 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/
Having seeing in action E-3 versus D200, frankly, E-3 is weak: sensor is crappy and picture quality degrades very quickly as shooting conditions worsen.

Disclaimer: E-520 owner.

P.S. Any rumors when Oly's going to drop that "xD" gag? It's so old it's not funny anymore.]]>Nov 5th 2008 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/olympus-fills-the-e-520-e-3-gap-with-the-e-30-dslr/Nov 5th 2008 11:25AM