The E-1 is in a league of its own. It feels like no other camera in the hand, it produces some amazing files and sounds smooth. Mine had a loose rubber grip, I removed it, cleaned both the grip and the body from all adhesive residue and now I can't get an adhesive to get the grip to stick to the body.

This camera is the most comfortable camera to hold from my collection. And it takes great photos!

Hi…I own my E-1 for about 10 years now and also have a E-500 and the E-1 is my favourite. Great handling, simple and weathersealed. I also have E-3, but that camera is more complicated to use and heavy. I also have the 14-54 and (my favourite) 50-200. Question: Are the photos in your gallery all done with the 35 mm? Thanks for your nice ‘talk’ about my old buddy. I don’t use the E-1 very often, because I prefer the practical use on my Ipad with my Olympus Em-1 (1), but when I’m in the mood I always enjoy my E-1 for the day. Stills are wonderful.

I have an e-500 and adapted a macro Nikon lens. Loving it

The E1 is better than the E300/E500, more subtle, easier to manage highlights and shadows, better jpgs out of the box and better raw file manipulation (no TIFF). Slightly more natural colors, but amazing CCD, raw red green blue and yellow hues are amazing. The E300/E500 has a more digital look, stronger contrast, stronger sharpening, difficult to manage highlights under strong sunlight, but also makes beautiful pictures. I prefer the look of E300 pictures over E500 but its very subtle, the E500 camera is more manageable but less geeky, much lighter too. The early CMOS variations are also very well color rendered, E510/E410 had image stabilization and a very early live view possibility (slooow). If I am not mistaken. The later CMOS variations are more neutral calibrated and lose some raw Kodak color science magic. But are much better camera's as a tool. Alot of early CMOS and super CCD's also have very beautiful color rendition, but it's more hit and miss. Check galleries to know not specs. The difficulty is to get good glass at cheap prices for the E1/E300/E500 that lets in alot of light (you need that with these vintage digitals without stabilization). The kit lenses are ok, but require post processing (sharpening), use center autofocus and recompose ... The E1 shure is the camera to keep. And if you can't find a cheap E300 just get the E500 and you will have 95% the same image results.

I've owned most of the best early CCD cameras including the E300, E500, S5pro, S3pro, S2pro, k10, IstD, Dynax and more and the E1 is the king of them all if you have good light - if you're after the slide film look. It's best to shoot in TIFF because then you get the Olympus color science. The Fuji S2pro is second best but it's not fun to shoot with. Both Kodak and Fuji were trying to appeal to film photographers back then and their early cameras were built to mimic film. The Nikon D200 is amazing but wasn't designed to look like film. So it doesn't.

There was one on ebay today for $85 i was trying to snag but someone got it before me