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Subject: [Leica] D Vario on E3 - was HK Winter shot
From: philippe.amard at tele2.fr (Philippe AMARD)
Date: Mon Feb 4 11:22:06 2008
References: <200802022012.m12KAZ74000632@server1.waverley.reid.org> <D898BB42-56C0-40B7-B655-0F359AD8EB75@netvigator.com> <ED1DC716-5874-4A15-8D06-DAF3773CEAD9@nathanfoto.com> <37429B7D-55FE-45C8-A0A6-78CDE60BFD9A@comcast.net>

Thanks Tom, my fuzzylogics will improve no end now  :-D
phx


Tom Schofield wrote:

> Rumor has it that if you leave both IS turned on, you can let go of  
> the camera and it remains floating in mid air.  Some report that it  
> tracks moving subjects, and can automatically take swishy pans!  ;-)
>
> I think it sounds like a new episode of Myth Busters.
>
> Tom
>
> On Feb 2, 2008, at 10:45 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>
>> This is also what the manual says--at the end of chapter 4 (in the  
>> Dutch version): "If you use a lens with built-in IS, then turn off  
>> the IS on either the camera or the lens".
>>
>> Nathan
>>
>> On 3-feb-2008, at 1:47, admin wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Philippe,
>>> I asked my camera seller (who surprisingly, unlike most Hong Kong  
>>> dealers, is quite knowledgeable) about using the Vario OIS stab on  
>>> the E3 (which, as you know, also has built in stabilization) and he  
>>> suggested that I should turn off one or the other so I have been  
>>> using the in camera stabilization with the lens stab turned off.  
>>> This makes sense to me. I reason that if both systems are on they  
>>> may over compensate themselves or cancel themselves out. The shot  
>>> was ORF processed in the Oly software since I couldn't get to CS2  
>>> to read the ORF files.  I am finding that performance up to iSO 800  
>>> is exemplary and with noise suppression very good to ISO 1600. The  
>>> 100% viewfinder is a vast improvement over the dim tunnel vision of  
>>> the 330E and the autofocus is now getting into Nikon D200 / Canon  
>>> 40D territory in terms of speed and accuracy. Live View is a  
>>> compromise over the Live View of the 330E and retrograde in my  
>>> opinion. It doesn't have the 10X magnification for manual focus  
>>> lenses which so improved my focus accuracy using R lenses on the  
>>> 330E. This is a disappointment. Still, in sum the E3 is several  
>>> steps forward over the 330E/ L1 and I suggest that if you try one  
>>> you will likely end up buying it. However, I am still keeping my  
>>> 330E for use with R lenses.
>>> Cheers
>>> Howard (on the periphery of the worst winter in China in 50 years)
>>> On 3 Feb 2008, at 4:12 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:
>>>
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> nathan@nathanfoto.com
>> General photography:
>> http://www.nathanfoto.com
>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
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>> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog
>>
>>
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