Forty-niner
As mentioned earlier in my photostream, my E-3's shutter packed it over 125,000 activations short of the 150,000 it's rated for. And as much as I love my PEN, sometimes there's still no substitute for shooting through an optical viewfinder. So out came my old E-500 to see if it can do the job. Mari still regularly shoots with the old camera and loves it, but I needed to find out if I still love it and can live with it for awhile while the E-3 goes back to Olympus for repair. What did I notice? The optical viewfinder is tiny. I'm spoiled by having more than three focus points. While the PEN might struggle to focus the adapted Zuiko Digital 50mm f/2.0 macro, the E-500 feels even slower, definitely hunts more, and sometimes won't lock focus. At low ISOs the noise control is great... and the colours out of the old Kodak sensor are awesome. But I want my E-3 back! (And an E-P3, but that's another story for another day!) Alleyway at Richards Street, near West Pender, downtown Vancouver. July 2, 2011.
Forty-niner
As mentioned earlier in my photostream, my E-3's shutter packed it over 125,000 activations short of the 150,000 it's rated for. And as much as I love my PEN, sometimes there's still no substitute for shooting through an optical viewfinder. So out came my old E-500 to see if it can do the job. Mari still regularly shoots with the old camera and loves it, but I needed to find out if I still love it and can live with it for awhile while the E-3 goes back to Olympus for repair. What did I notice? The optical viewfinder is tiny. I'm spoiled by having more than three focus points. While the PEN might struggle to focus the adapted Zuiko Digital 50mm f/2.0 macro, the E-500 feels even slower, definitely hunts more, and sometimes won't lock focus. At low ISOs the noise control is great... and the colours out of the old Kodak sensor are awesome. But I want my E-3 back! (And an E-P3, but that's another story for another day!) Alleyway at Richards Street, near West Pender, downtown Vancouver. July 2, 2011.