What Micro 4/3 cameras have external shutter releases?

[daniel_reetz]

Has anyone ever posted expected shutter life on an EP-1? I could imagine doing the rest of my book collection with a pair of them...

[Misty]

I haven't seen any specs on that. Olympus doesn't list them on their site or in the manual.

[Misty]

Y'know, come to think of it. I have an E-P2. I don't have the 20mm or 17mm primes (all my primes are legacies), but would a shot with the 14-42 be helpful to you?

[daniel_reetz]

Yes, it would, especially if you can find a book that's 17x11 or so -- I suspect the zoom kit lenses are going to be the only way to get these cameras very cheaply...

[Misty]

Good excuse to pull the 14-42 out from where it's gathering dust. I think we have some 11x17" posters around, but the easiest might simply be to print out a sheet of pure (PD) text to 11x17. I could also grab the 10x12" 1876 County of Brant atlas. Edit: Misremembered. The atlas is closer to 15x18". Would that be good, or is that too big for you?

[daniel_reetz]

All of those options work for me... do the one that takes the least time and effort.

I have the same situation with my NEX... the 18-55 kit lens has just been gathering dust.

[Misty]

I'll try to take a couple atlas shots later today, or tomorrow. I'll get you a text page and a map, or the title page (fine lineart detail).

[Misty]

Instead of the atlas, I ended up photographing a book quite similar to the copybooks that DonnaA was speaking about. It looks like my biggest challenge is just avoiding camera shake when there's more front-heavy weight than I have with the G10! The slight fuzziness seems to be an artifact of that, particularly as it got worse the longer I kept the shutter speed up.

Here is a full-size JPEG. Can we get attachments over 512K?

[daniel_reetz]

Here is a full-size JPEG.

Awesome! This is plenty good for testing, methinks. EDIT: I'm gonna say it's better than plenty good... it's great!

Can we get attachments over 512K?

I just made them unlimited in size, well, I think I did... if there's a PDF attached to this post, I really did.

[Misty]

Thanks, Dan! Let me know if you need anything else to help.