Yesterday, I get new camera – Olympus E-520. My old Canon Powershot was good and honestly made good pictures for 4 years. All modern products have usage time limit, 4 years for point and shot camera is very good result.
I had looong looong time to select my first DSLR. Nikon, Canon, Nikon, Canon, Nikon, Nikon. I was very close to get Nikon, but my favorite model D80 is too old [and overpriced ?]. Canon, my intuition was strongly against Canon. Olympus, what’s that ?
My dad owns Olympus E-510, and I was wondering, why he never told me that Olympus is the best camera ever made and I should use only it. I read different reviews and forums, it was very funny to read forums about religious fights Canon vs. Nikon, where people sometimes post too much useless information. But almost 90% of the information was about Canon or Nikon. That’s why I didn’t considered Olympus as alternative. But recently I looked in the E-500 series, read sorted reviews about E-520 and liked different features.
Image stabilizer, anti-dust, probably a bit better [more expensive] default kit lenses, price [brand price is tricky factor]. Yes, I missed opportunity to get gateway to huuuge lenses type available for Canons, get mystical 4/3. But all the way my intuition from the beginning told me I need that camera. I’ve used to follow my intuition.
As many good people said, It’s not a camera, it’s a man behind the camera.
My first impression about the camera. “Wow !” and “So difficult !“.
“Wow !” is logical, as recently I was using old Opel [Canon PowerShot A80] and got brand new car [any you like] with a lot of untouched features.
Transition was more difficult, as I expected. My dad said, it’ll take some time to feel comfortable with a camera. I thought “no way”, it should happen in a few moments. I was wrong. There are so much features and I have to control all of them. Even getting photo from camera is more difficult as previously. Here you can look for the photo where I’d tested stabilizer. I read the manual before switching the camera, but I need to look 2 times in the manual to select correct stabilizer option and disable flash 🙂
Few people told me, that I’m crazy to spend so much money for the useless camera. Well, maybe, but some of us spend money for SUV and luxury cards without a reason, casino and travels, clothes and girls. Tastes are different. DSLR is something that I missed long in my life and I don’t care how much I should to pay for it.
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