RustyB
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Feb 29, 2008, 7:23 PM
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Re: [DGates] PICS: My first wedding as photographer...
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The Oly E-3 looks to be a rather stout camera. It got a gushing review on DP review. I liked my E-500, but it felt rather cheap in it's build quality. And I hated the viewfinder. Looks like Oly took pains to really improve the VF on the E-3.
Yeah, the e-510 is a little better than the e-500, most importantly the in-body OIS, which is super-awesome. They're both cheap consumer cameras, and small/lightweight, but I do like the ergonomics. I have small hands, and love the way they feel. Of course, they're the only DSLR's I know, so I can only compare them to 35mm cameras. My friend picked up a Canon Rebel to shoot family pics, and it felt less substantial than even the e-500. I do like the feel of the Nikon consumer D50/70 cams, however.
The e-510 is also way less noisy at high ISO's, but the E-3 is supposed to be even better, which is the only reason I want to upgrade to the E-3 really. But for a sub-$500 consumer camera, the e-510 ain't a bad deal.
Olympus is also supposed to be finally releasing the long awaited constant aperture 14-35 f2 lens, which will be awesome, but it will cost like $2200!!  It would be great for weddings, coupled with the constant aperture 35-100 f2 lens, which cost about the same.
But if I start actually booking some paid wedding photo gigs, the cost won't be hard to justify. Beats spending countless of thousands of dollars on High Def video and audio gear to shoot $699 videos. 
the People's Video Collective blog
wedding video and the means of production
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I think in the future I'll have to limit the upload to "200 of the best pictures"...and just send the client the full load of pics on data DVD. 500 was just WAY too many to be uploading, and probably overwhelmed the gallery. 
