Olympus E-3 Review

Four years is a actual continued time in the agenda camera market, and four years in the agenda SLR bazaar is around a lifetime. In the four-odd years amid the barrage of the Olympus E-1 - the camera that heralded the aboriginal all-new SLR arrangement for over a decade - and its almsman the E-3, the DSLR mural has afflicted above recognition, with prices bottomward and capabilities soaring. The apple confused on whilst the Olympus able arrangement stood still, searching added and added extraneous and beneath and beneath like a austere adversary to the abiding Canon/Nikon duopoly in the pro market.

Of advance the Olympus ambit itself wasn't continuing still, and afterwards a few apocryphal starts (mainly acquired by the about baleful addiction for Olympus automated designers to aftermath cameras that didn't attending like cameras) and some flashes of aggressive addition (bringing reside view, blame and screaming, to the SLR market, for example) the E-series started to be taken a lot added seriously.

But whilst Olympus fans' alcohol were buoyed by the addition of well-reviewed and accepted models such as the E-500 and the accepted E-410/E-510 duo, the abridgement of a top end archetypal to alter the ageing E-1 - or annihilation in the E-series ambit to attempt with top end 'semi pro' models like the Nikon D200 - was the could cause of abundant concern. It's all actual able-bodied accepting superb bottle (and few would disagree that Olympus produces some of the best lenses on the bazaar today) if there isn't a analogously well-specified camera to put abaft it.

And so the E-3, the long-awaited almsman to the E-1, has assuredly arrived. To say that it carries a abundant weight of apprehension on its ample amateur is putting it lightly; this is the camera that will adjudge for already and for all whether Olympus has what it takes to able the Nikon/Canon stronghold, or is to abide always a alcove amateur in the able market.