Apropos of nothing, a few shots I took at the end of July with the new
E-410 and the new DZ 7-14mm, plus a couple with the 14-54mm.
http://tinyurl.com/2gvbnj
Taken at or near the town of Drumheller, Alberta, in the Alberta
Badlands. The first three photos are of a series of sandstone
"boulders" (probably concretions) which have been exposed from the
valley floor due to erosive forces. These boulders are about 150 metres
east of The Hoodoos, a famous (if over-photographed) series of eroded
pillars with sandstone (?) caps.
The fourth photo is a portrait of my wife and our niece while we were
tromping around the grounds of the Royal Tyrell Museum of Paleontology
(also located in the Badlands). This was the first day I'd gotten a
chance to really work the E-410 in the field.
I'm really liking the E-410, even though it's a prosumer camera. As
I've written previously, it's too bad Oly didn't produce this as their
first DSLR offering a few years ago -- its size and weight are very
reminiscent of the imagined "digital OM-4" we'd all hoped for back then.
It lacks some features I think of as essential for a good DSLR, such
as the ability to do multi-exposure brackets with a choice of EV ranges
that are completely user-selectable (the E-410 limits the brackets to a
series of three separated by a maximum of a single EV each). This is
important because the imaging chip actually has slightly less dynamic
range than the E-1 did, so being able to create a bracketed series with
substantial EV differences becomes more important. And of course, it
only accepts some of the range of accessories -- there's no battery grip
available for it, as just one example.
Nevertheless, it's a nice DSLR, the price is right, and it takes that
lovely Oly glass. I'm hoping that the new E-thingie addresses some of
the E-410's shortcomings, but I'll probably use the 410 for years to come.
Garth
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