>Dan: Thanks for putting that together, and for confirming yet again
>that it wasn't such a bad idea to buy it.
I jumped on one back when they were still a bit hard-to-find because I
wanted something more pocket-sized to take on the upcoming trip, and
have had no cause to regret it so far. It's not that I take more good
photos than I did before, it's that I take fewer accidentally bad ones..
The chances of a photo being lost by being out of
focus/motion-blurred/too dark/etc are that much smaller, so the problems
are much more my fault than ever before.
Interestingly, I haven't felt a whole lot of urge to buy more lenses.
I'm tempted by the zuiko 75-300, but that's expensive enough that I can
live without it for now; I have enough MF options for telephoto that I'm
okay for the time being, and AF, while nice, certainly isn't necessary
-- an old OM shot:
http://danielmitchell.net/sg/index.php?gallery=Events/Snow_Jam_Aug_11_2001/halfpipe&image=hp7.jpg
>And it's nice to see my home
>state through someone else's eyes. That waterfall curtain shot is
>especially wonderful. Columbia Gorge?
Actually, the waterfall is Bridal Veil falls up in BC, which we went
past on the way across from Calgary:
http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/bridalveil_falls/
>And maybe the cherries shot isn't
>a true macro, but it's sure big enough for me!
That's exactly what I found -- I still have the option of using older
"real" macro lenses if I want to make a special effort, but the 12-50
goes close enough to let me take photos of small-ish things if I want
to, while still having a versatile lens for normal use. Another example
of something I grabbed while hiking:
http://danielmitchell.net/sg/index.php?gallery=Children/11a_Jun_30_hike_grassi_lakes&image=P6300746.jpg
-- dan
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