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December 3, 2007
First Impressions of the E-510
Although I was way too busy this weekend to take full advantage of my new camera - an Olympus E-510 - which arrived last week, I did have just enough time to take it out for a short half-hour walk around the neighborhood this evening. And even though the only photos I've taken so far were shot in the dark, I can already tell that I'm going to love this camera.
The first bloggable shot has been posted and it's a photo that I never would have been able to get with my old camera. First, there is no way that I could have gotten such a steady shot on my old camera without a tripod. The new camera has image stabilization which works extremely well. I've been able to take shots with a 1/2 second exposure time and they've turned out just fine. Secondly, I'm now able to shoot RAW which means that the camera isn't taking what the sensor sees and compressing it into a noisy JPEG filled with artifacts and blocks. Instead, the images that are recorded on my memory card are exactly what the camera is seeing and this is turning out to make a huge difference in terms of quality.
I'm giving this camera two thumbs up so far and I'm very much looking forward to taking it out in the daytime to see what it can really do.
Posted on December 3, 2007 at 12:01 AM
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