Problems with current batch of Olympus cameras

[wrx_sti_22b]

Here you go!

http://plusd.itmedia.co.jp/lifestyle/articles/0606/09/news005.html

Thank you... i wanted to have the photos for a research project... :bsmilie: (now i'll invent my own text... ;p)

 

[cjtune]

Yup, the banding issue at high ISO... but that is what happens when the world demands for a special feature...

No.. that's what happens when some marketing executive decides to push in something fancy at the expense of bread-and-butter stuff, and given that today others can do Live View without such an IQ tradeoff, I'm not so sure it's an immature technology problem any more.

 

[drakon09]

No.. that's what happens when some marketing executive decides to push in something fancy at the expense of bread-and-butter stuff, and given that today others can do Live View without such an IQ tradeoff, I'm not so sure it's an immature technology problem any more.

Well, I'd junk the MOS sensors in a heartbeat, but the general population has a strange aversion to noise, so...

 

[nerfwings]

I agree with your view. I think the MOS sensors are indeed inferior. I "upgraded" from the E500 to the E510 and i thought that the pictures from my E500 look more pleasing and noiseless. (Even at ISO100 i could "feel" it)

Doesn't seem so much of an upgrade after using the E510 for some time.

Well, I'd junk the MOS sensors in a heartbeat, but the general population has a strange aversion to noise, so...

 

[zuikoku]

Yup, the banding issue at high ISO... but that is what happens when the world demands for a special feature... we now have to live with it... for those in the smaller group who prefers the noise and "grains", film style, now we have to either hold on to the E-1 or buy the CCD equipped E-400 from overseas.

Yes, Banding is starting from ISO 1600 and above on E-3.
Quite annoying since the area is very big comparing to EOS 5D or Nikon D200 last time.
Try to live with it since there is no significant solution from Olympus itself imo.

 

[say123]

ok another crazy thing happen to my e3 *why the hell is this happening* i was shooting in a party, i was able to click the shutter then boom! it just died, it never flipped back, i lost control of the camera, I have to turn it off and on again, for me to use it, first I thought its due to my battery is low coz I was shooting in the zoo in the morning, and it alerted me that i'm low batt, but the weird thing is when I on and off again the battery status is still full?? I know the status is not that accurate, but from a red low batt status to full battery status, I don't think that is normal, plus the fact I was able to shoot another 50 shots after the camera showed me a red low batt status. Given the battery is low or its just giving me a wrong battery status, is it normal to just die on you? I mean while clicking the shutter? would this cause damage to my camera? because it happen twice tonight... sigh I can't bring it to olympus because I cannot recreate the problem, any idea what's happening here.

Oh by the way another thing, while I was shooting on the zoo, after a couple of shots, the camera suddenly told me "Card Error" and I wasnt able to use the card anymore, I have to replace it with a new one, I didnt format the card because I want to salvage some of my files, then back home when I access the cf using my card reader, I saw a strange file "Olyerr" something, I tried to delete it but my vista keep on saying the file is not there *stupid vista I can see the file*, anyway after downloading all the files I needed, I formmated the cf card using the camera and it fixed the cf card, I'm guessing all of this is related to the HLD4, coz when I was just using the body w/o the grip none of this ever happend well except for the freezing of cam while switching from the live view. Are there others here experience the same problem as mine?

just wondering what did u do in the end?
did u send it in and what did the oly engineer says?