Wednesday, October 1. 2008
Cheap batteries
And I am finding out that the cheap battery I bought off Trademe for my u770 doesn't have a good charge capacity. A couple of days ago I took my camera out for a walk and found the battery was flat even though I have hardly used it since I last charged it. Back to the original Olympus one and more care to ensure that it is topped up regularly.
Sunday, August 12. 2007
Another Olympus camera
Well I succumbed and bought an Olympus mU770 digital camera with 2G XD card at the duty free shop at Melbourne airport. Now I won't worry so much about whether the camera gets a dunking when I'm sailing - although it won't float so till needs some care. It will take me a little while to get my head around its menus but it looks good so far. I was very tempted to get an Olympus digital SLR and an adapter for all my OM lenses but the waterproofness won out in the end.
Sunday, July 8. 2007
Olympus Cameras
I've got a pile of Olympus OM camera gear that I have accumulated over the last 20 or so years. Starting with my first OM-1 in about 1976 I have now got several OM-2SP, an OM-10 and 2 OM1s. I have some favourite lenses including a 21mm that I love, and the 50mm macro lens. There are several longer lenses out to the 300mm including a 75-150mm zoom. None of my OM lenses are the very fast ones. A couple of T-20s and a T-32 flash fill in when necessary.
I first saw a photographer using an Olympus Pen-FT at Scott Base, Antarctica in 1969 and finally bought one for myself about 4 years ago. Since then I have found another one and have several bodies for spares. I have also managed to get a few lenses including the fast 60mm f1.5 portrait lens and the 40mm f1.2 standard lens.
I have a couple of Olympus mU point & shoots and a couple of years ago I bought an Olympus mU410 digital which I have used quite a but but it doesn't have the same feel as the film cameras.
There is a (kitset) Bender 4x5 camera on the shelf that I bought a Linhof 90mm lens for that I hope to get mounted onto a tripod in the future to play with some landscape work.
I first saw a photographer using an Olympus Pen-FT at Scott Base, Antarctica in 1969 and finally bought one for myself about 4 years ago. Since then I have found another one and have several bodies for spares. I have also managed to get a few lenses including the fast 60mm f1.5 portrait lens and the 40mm f1.2 standard lens.
I have a couple of Olympus mU point & shoots and a couple of years ago I bought an Olympus mU410 digital which I have used quite a but but it doesn't have the same feel as the film cameras.
There is a (kitset) Bender 4x5 camera on the shelf that I bought a Linhof 90mm lens for that I hope to get mounted onto a tripod in the future to play with some landscape work.
Monday, August 14. 2006
My Olympus habit
and photography links. I have wanted Olympus SLR cameras since I saw a Pen-FT in use in Antarctica in 1969. My first one was an OM-1 in 1976 and I have accumulated several OM-1s (including a couple for parts), several good Pen-FTs (including a couple for parts too) plus an OM2-SP, an OM-10, a Mu2, a Mu2-115 zoom, a Mu-410 digital, a bunch of OM lenses from 21mm to 300mm and a few Pen lenses (including the nice 42mm f1.2 and the 60mm f1.5.
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