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Re: [OM] Happy Thanksgiving, a new camera

Subject: Re: [OM] Happy Thanksgiving, a new camera
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 15:17:15 -0500
And what's your take on the EVF? (since, if I buy one, it will probably 
have to be sight unseen).

Chuck Norcutt


On 11/24/2012 2:40 PM, Martin Walters wrote:
> Peter:
> Congrats.
>
> Yes, the user interface options are challenging. Having been through the
> menus on screen several times, at least the options are now more or less
> understandable. Having done that, I then reset the camera back to
> defaults. I'll make just a couple of changes and then see what I need -
> in particular wrt manual focus lenses (I don't have my adapters yet). I
> recognize how simple life was with my OM2N and 4T. I suspect there's a
> lot in the OM-D's menus that I'll never use.
>
> I went mirrorless because I wanted something small and light. The OM-D
> is that, even with the 12-50. I'd looked at the fast primes recently and
> they are also small. And, the new sensor hits the right spot,too.
>
> Martin
>
> On 24/11/2012 5:06 AM, Peter Klein wrote:
>> Oly listers:  I've been mostly away from the list for several weeks due
>> to work, rehearsals, and life.  I hope everyone who celebrates it had a
>> wonderful Thanksgiving. For you Canadians, you always were ahead of us
>> in certain things.  And the rest of you, I hope you had a great day anyway!
>>
>> My birthday was Friday, so we celebrated it on Thursday night with our
>> Thanksgiving guests.  My birthday present was an Olympus OM-D. For
>> several years a Panasonic G1 has been my "other" camera after my Leica
>> M8.  The OM-D seemed to check all the boxes I wanted, and the
>> drastically improved sensor made it a worthwhile upgrade.
>>
>> So I am now learning the OM-D's somewhat daunting, program-your-own user
>> interface.  First results, with the little Panny 20/1.7 (40mm
>> equivalent), have been very promising.
>>
>> My very first shot, a self-portrait in my bathroom mirror, turned out
>> quite nicely, especially when converted to B&W.
>> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/8198764512/in/photostream>
>>
>> The world's funniest Border Terrier doing her thing:
>> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/8213422576/in/photostream/>
>>
>> Our friend Laurie carves her pumpkin pie. Somebody clearly wants some.
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/Thanksgiving12/PB220020.jpg.html>
>>
>> Our friend Carl took this one of me with my camera. Face detection works.
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/Thanksgiving12/PB220029+2.jpg.html>
>>
>> --Peter
>>
>
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