Hi Moose,
I took a look at the specs, and it looks as if it would be a useful
accessary when exploring new territory, where you never know what type of
gear is required. Keep us posted.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 11:34 PM
Subject: [OM] Deconstructing photo gear
> Ever notice how something we take for granted, assume to be the natural
> way or order of things, was really a result of
> things in the past that aren't necessarily true today?
>
> There's certainly a lot of that going on with photo equipment recently.
> Used to be we had two basic lens models, fixed
> and interchangeable and a few different viewfinder models, primarily
> variations of view camera (Liveview!), TLR, SLR
> and optical finder, with or without rangefinder.
>
> The model since the beginning of photography has been that to change image
> magnification and/or perspective, you changed
> subject distance and/or focal length, either by changing lenses or
> adjusting a zoom lens.
>
> µ4/3, with LCD only or EVF, Sony SLTs and the Ricoh GXR with
> interchangeable lens/sensor modules have all challenged
> things as they were.
>
> The Ricoh GXR mostly follows the paradigm of interchangeable lenses. By
> replacing much of what has traditionally been
> part of the camera when changing lenses, it hints at something different.
>
> So what about taking the next step, switching cameras, instead of lenses?
> I'm not ready to try that with big cameras -
> yet. But what about compacts?
>
> My odyssey with compact, fixed lens cameras, started with a 1.9 MP camera
> with a fabulous zoom range of 35-70 mm eq
> (shades of the first Zuiko zoom), ran up through 3x, then to 6x, 35-210 mm
> zoom, and now the G11, 28-140 mm. I love the
> G11. All cameras are compromises of one sort or another, and the G11 is a
> great one.
>
> Still, I've always had a bit of a 'tele eye'. I reveled in the multiplier
> effect of the APS size sensor of my first
> DSLR. The 300 mm long end of my zoom was like a 480 mm zoom on 35 mm film,
> but without the size, weight and cost
> penalties. Even the 210 mm eq. of the A650 sometimes left me wishing for
> more reach. I'd see potential images, but not
> be able to realize them.
>
> While the 28 mm short end of the G11 is a wonderful improvement, the 140
> mm long end leaves me feeling constrained on
> enough occasions to be irritating. I've toyed with auxiliary lenses on my
> Canon compacts with means to attach them. but
> they are really awkward to carry and use and big and heavy enough that I
> really haven't used them.
>
> So why not try a different kind of trade-off, carrying a second camera
> that's smaller and lighter than aux. lenses, yet
> has a much longer zoom? The big trade-off will be IQ, but how bad will it
> be, really. Better I bet than a crop of the
> same AOV from the G11, with or without aux. lens.
>
> On 7/2/2010 4:03 PM, Moose wrote:
>> ... Today, I have a Samsung HZ35w in a shopping cart while I contemplate
>> further how and how much I might really use it.
>
> When I finally went to pull the trigger, the HZ35w seemed to have already
> come and gone, not in stock anywhere. However,
> that's just the North America name, and the same rose by the name WB650 is
> still available, with world-wide warranty.
>
> And I now have one. I haven't yet gone out with a camera on each hip, but
> have done some fairly extensive practical
> testing of the WB650.
>
> 24-360 mm in one small package! More in the next post.
>
>
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