[Johnny Brown]

Maybe it was a mistake. Just checked ebay and looks like I got a decent deal after all.

Tom, that LC-1 lenscap looks genius, did you get one off ebay? Does it bayonet on?

[Tom de Gay]

Got it off Amazon I think. Bayonets on and certainly improves the usability of the camera.

[jwi]

Anyone got their hands on a Ricoh CX 1 yet? http://www.ricoh.com/r_dc/cx/cx1/

My father asked me which compact camera to buy and looking on the specs for the CX 1 I am thinking that I will tell him to not buy a new one until it is released.  Thoughts?

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

Anyone got their hands on a Ricoh CX 1 yet? http://www.ricoh.com/r_dc/cx/cx1/

Nope but just read it does HDR in camera, which is either an incredibly good or bad thing, depending on your point of view.

[jwi]

Fortunately most people will never read the manual (and my father is certainly one of them), so I am not too worried.

[Johnny Brown]

Your eye, because it's awesome, can sort all this out on its own, but a digital camera's sensor can't.

 

[cofe]

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[Johnny Brown]

Olympus making good on their heritage:



Got to be a contender for any climbing photographer. What would Galen be using? Apart from his strong pair of thighs?

[cofe]

i've still got a boner from when i saw the pics of that this morning.

[dave]

white leather strap? i hear they're giving away a free pair of spats with every purchase.

[Johnny Brown]

C'mon Dave - look sharp, shoot sharp.

[dave]

I'd have prefered corduroy.

[cofe]

Got one o' them.

[dave]

you need to starp representing that vibe at the crag again. those "eos digital" ones are well passé.

[cofe]

you need to starp representing that vibe at the crag again.

you just try and starp me.

[Johnny Brown]

There was a guy on the OM forum I used to use who specialized in retrofitting OM's with snakeskin:



I daresay he could do a corduroy Pen-E.

[cofe]

There was a guy on the OM forum I used to use

i hope he was at least 18yrs of age.

[dave]

the retrofitted snakeskin looks good, almost good enough to ditch all the nikon gear, but I'm still holding out for that 24ct gold lizard-skinned FA. Or a hasselblad finished in laminated £50 notes.

[Johnny Brown]

You're barking up a cheap tree there Dave. Nikon made 2000 of those FAs. Whereas Oly only made 20 of these, and Maitani handed them out to his favourite personally.

A camera maker that simply copies others' idea has no right to call itself an original maker in the first place." -Mr. Maitani, creator of the Olympus OM ("O" for Olympus, "M" for Maitani)

[dave]

I can't believe they made a camera like that and then stuck a fucking zoom on it. its like seeing an aston martin with a churchill nodding dog on the back shelf.

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

Spend a penny (or 74900) on a E-P1

http://www.warehouseexpress.com/product/default.aspx?sku=1032274

[SA Chris]

I heard you had a strap from Arabia dave?

[dave]

Spend a penny (or 74900) on a E-P1

http://www.warehouseexpress.com/product/default.aspx?sku=1032274

it'd better be shit hot for the topside of 700 kablingies. yowser. presumably having none of the irritating factors of most compacts like slow autofocus, not enough dedicated controls, bad startup and shutter lag, shite noise above the base ISO etc.

[Johnny Brown]

Dpreview suggests its essentially an E-30 crammed in there - so sounds impressive. I imagine it'll be the right side of 500 notes wthin a year too.

[dave]

also its got the 2 most important parts of any camera - a hotshoe and a filter thread. sadly often lacking in compacts.

looks like it'll be the bombshit with your 90mm f/2 macro thing.