![]() Olympus Zuiko 50-200mm f/2.8-3.5 Digital ED SWD Lens for Olympus Digital SLR Cameras $1,439.99 The 50-200mm SWD is a great lens. Sharp fast focus. Picture quality is outstanding. With the photos cropped in post production the image quality is great. I have this lens and the 12-60 SWD and they are the only lenses I cary out shooting photos. I have the E-3 Body so the SWD works well with this camera. With the 50-200 and the E-3 it is a hefty load. I mount mine to a monopod most of the time. Great lens. Great image quality. Great build quality. It is a little heavy, but you will love the image quality. ![]() Prince of Undeath: Adventure E3 for 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons (4th Edition D&D) $24.95 The Demon Prince of Undeath is calling you out! This epic-level D&D¢ī adventure is designed to take characters from 27th to 30th level. In this adventure, the demon lord Orcus tries to usurp the Raven Queen”Ēs power over death using a shard of evil plucked from the depths of the Abyss. Only the world”Ēs most powerful heroes have the slightest hope of stopping him. This adventure can be played as a stand-alone adventure or as the final adventure in the ”ČE”É series of adventures that began with E1 Death”Ēs Reach¢ļ and continued with E2 Kingdom of the Ghouls¢ļ. ![]() Olympus Evolt E-3 10.1MP Digital SLR Camera with Mechanical Image Stabilization with ED 12-60mm f/2.8-4.0 Lens and FL-50R Flash $3,199.97 I love Olympus DSLRs and currently own the E-1, E-500, E-510 & E-520, I had been holding out on the E-3 due to it's high price, but I eventually caved in and got one as I was finding my E-1 trailing in terms of resolution and missed the IS on the newer bodies. My first impression as I picked up and used the E-3 was very alien....I just didn't feel at home, especially after having used an E-1 all this time. The button layout is also very different from what's on the E-510/520, so I found myself on uncharted territory as this camera needed some "re-learning". Also, the grip didn't feel awfully right as the front control wheel didn't fall naturally on my index finger as it did with the E-1 and I couldn't help but wonder why Olympus had changed the E-3 so much?? Wouldn't it have been easier for E-1 users, considering they've used it for so long, to move to a camera which looked and behaved similarly?? But all this became moot after one weekend of shooting with the E-3. This is a very easy to use camera and the reason why the re-design was necessary was because this was a whole new camera! The biggest improvements for me were: 1. Incorporating in-body stabilization. 2. On-board flash, this can be a life-saver when you require fill flash without a bulky FL-50. 3. Bigger and brighter LCD, big step from the E-1! 4. Lastly, twice the resolution offered by the E-1. Build quality of the camera is excellent, although the battery door and the swivel LCD seemed like the weakest points of this body and I remain sceptical about these two areas of the body to date. In terms of IQ, this camera goes head to head with any APS-C DSLR out there and can produce stunning images up to about ISO 1250. Once you go beyond this, the IQ degrades substantially and it's no longer on par with its APS-C rivals. As such I would recommend using this camera below ISO 1250 to get the best possible IQ out of it. In terms of JPEG quality with regards to colours and tones, the E-3 is simply stunning! In case you do wish to use higher ISOs, I would recommend shooting RAW and carefully processing as there is visible banding in the shadows when you go to ISO 1600 and upwards. At lower ISOs sometimes I saw noise in the skies, but this seemed very inconsistent and I'm not sure why it appeared in some images and and wasn't visible in others. Overall, this is an excellent pro-level four-thirds camera and balances very well with the SHG Zuiko lenses. If you have the money and are willing to work within its limitations, this camera can offer some stunning images and I would highly recommend it. Personally, I kept my E-1 and gave my E-3 to my brother as I'm still able to pull the same IQ from the E-1 as I can from the E-3 (apart from resolution). |
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