Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. The O Stylus Epic is a dyNOmite P&S, at a price even your average teenager can afford. And if you want to use it as photo jewelry, take a page out of Kyle's book and make up a Mont Blanc, or even Leica, logo for it and paste it on! B. D. Kyle Cassidy wrote: > > >I want a small, compact, yet superb quality camera with > >Leica-comparable optics. > > i think the jury's actually back on that one. as far as point and shoots, > the olympus stylus epic is head and arms above the others, including the > stylin t3. you can get more than ten of them for the price of a minilux > and keep one in each coat pocket, one in your brief case, one in your > glove compartment, one on the back porch, etc. the stylus has a 35mm f2.8 > fixed focal length lens, fast AF and brilliantly computes fill flash with > chromes. > > i've made 16x20 enlargements from mine with excellent sharpness and > contrast results. > > word of warning, one of the PLUGgers has the zoom model and it BLOWS. i > don't know if it's just that particular camera, but the results are > unsharp. no leica user in his right mind would get a camera with a zoom > anyway, so what am i talking about? > > if you're set on a yuppie-class point and shoot, i'd say just pick the > style you like the best. your results will be similar with any of them. > > my .01, priced at what it's worth. > > kc