What's the Best Digi-Camera?

[Tony Bag o Donuts]

Originally Posted by Geekster

Well, after a long delay of being indecisive all this time between the Olympus E 510 and the Canon XTi I decided on the Olympus E 510. I was this |..| close buying the Canon when I read a review where they are having trouble with the camera hanging when ppl use the built in flash. And when ppl called Canon's tech support about the problem some of the CSR's were rude. Life is too short to be arguing with a tech person over a camera.
Plus with an adapter I can use my the lens from my Olympus 35mm film camera with this camera.
Got a good deal on it today (they are discontinuing the 510) & now have more money for more goodies for it.
Thanks everyone for all the help.

Congrats..I was shooting with a 510 today....I have sent my oly to get repaired at the NY center once and they replaced the whole camera within a week. Oly CS is great. You will not regret the purchase.

[Geekster]

I know....
When I did call about the lens they were very nice & couldn't believe that was all I needed.
Thinking about checking Ebay tomorrow and see if I can find the adapter, more lens, & maybe the "cheat cards".
Thanks for your help, Tony.

[Tony Bag o Donuts]

Originally Posted by Geekster

I know....
When I did call about the lens they were very nice & couldn't believe that was all I needed.
Thinking about checking Ebay tomorrow and see if I can find the adapter, more lens, & maybe the "cheat cards".
Thanks for your help, Tony.

no problem.

[Geekster]

Tony,
Did you do these updates on your Evolt 510?
I know I don't need the last one. I don't think I will use that lens for whatever pictures I take.
But did you do the other 2? Did it improve the performance of the camera?
Is writing to the compact flash faster? I know, I know! I just keep throwing questions at you.

[Geekster]

Tony,
*Yeah-I'm bothering you again!*
I flashed my camera yesterday and it went very smooth. I have a compact flash 3 so the update fixed the speed on the camera to write-read on the flash card. Was scary but so was the first time I flashed the bios on my PC years ago. Only trouble I am having is the "templates" update. They are downloaded but can't install them to the camera. Everything is "grayed out" and can't drag & drop them in. Going to mess with it more this weekend if I don't have to work.
Ok--I'm going to leave you alone for awhile now. (maybe-no promises) LOL

[Tony Bag o Donuts]

Originally Posted by Geekster

Tony,
*Yeah-I'm bothering you again!*
I flashed my camera yesterday and it went very smooth. I have a compact flash 3 so the update fixed the speed on the camera to write-read on the flash card. Was scary but so was the first time I flashed the bios on my PC years ago. Only trouble I am having is the "templates" update. They are downloaded but can't install them to the camera. Everything is "grayed out" and can't drag & drop them in. Going to mess with it more this weekend if I don't have to work.
Ok--I'm going to leave you alone for awhile now. (maybe-no promises) LOL

Just wanted to say sorry that I missed this post...Templates to the camera?

[Geekster]

Originally Posted by Tony Bag o Donuts

Just wanted to say sorry that I missed this post...Templates to the camera?

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I downloaded templates from Oly site after I updated/flashed the camera to be able to read/write faster to the 4 gig SanDisk Extreme 3 compact flash card I bought to use. (FYI: on sale @ Circuit City now). Left side of window is the templates that in theory I can add to the camera, which is the right side of window, as frames when shooting a picture. Right click "add" is grayed out, add button is grayed out lower right side. I can right click on a template and delete a template/s & that is the only option I have. Just wondering if you did this & if you had any trouble adding the templates to the camera. No big deal that I can't add them, even if I did I probably wouldn't use them but my "tech gene" kicked in & I have to figure out why.
That's all... I was just wondering/wanting to know if you had problems or even tried.

[Tony Bag o Donuts]

Originally Posted by Geekster

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I downloaded templates from Oly site after I updated/flashed the camera to be able to read/write faster to the 4 gig SanDisk Extreme 3 compact flash card I bought to use. (FYI: on sale @ Circuit City now). Left side of window is the templates that in theory I can add to the camera, which is the right side of window, as frames when shooting a picture. Right click "add" is grayed out, add button is grayed out lower right side. I can right click on a template and delete a template/s & that is the only option I have. Just wondering if you did this & if you had any trouble adding the templates to the camera. No big deal that I can't add them, even if I did I probably wouldn't use them but my "tech gene" kicked in & I have to figure out why.
That's all... I was just wondering/wanting to know if you had problems or even tried.

Nope never tried. Only thing I want is a focusing screen to put the tic tac toe grid in my viewfinder for framing shots.

[Geekster]

Ok...just being nosey and that's been established in other posts/threads.
Not going to worry about it. Some day if I ever find an answer,w/c I'm not going out of my way to find, then that would be cool, too.
Later...