Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gary Nice image and between you and B.D. the E330 looks like a winner. Walt p.s. I haven't covered a political rally in a few years but can imagine enough chimping going on to make it seem an accurate description. :-) Gary Todoroff wrote: > Here's why I like to carry a camera with me, even to lunch at the > local airport cafe. Checking out the commotion outside, it turned out > that a Cessna 150 had tried to become a seaplane on Humboldt Bay, just > a mile off the end of the runway at Murray Field. Here's the photo > that ended up on the front page of the local paper: > http://www.eurekareporter.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ArticleID=18225 > > I was carrying my Olympus E-330 that day (with Zuiko 14-54mm > f2.8-3.5), the one that becomes a "Lympa" when I adapt Leica R lenses > to it. Now if only Leica would see the value of a live-view, tiltable > LCD. I did use the optical SLR finder for the above shot out the > airplane window. However I used the live-view E-330 LCD almost > exclusively a couple days ago for some theater indoor low light shots. > I was able to use all kinds of things to brace the camera on, getting > very sharp slow speed shots while looking down on the LCD like a twin > lens reflex. Some "chimping" (what a ridiculous word) came in very > handy, too, to get perfect exposure balance with the fill-flash > indoors and the outdoor scene through the windows. > > I'll say it again: the Oly E-3330 is the most creative camera I've > experienced since switching to a Leica M2 forty years ago. I would > never go back to a camera without the features of live-view on a DSLR. > Plus the small E-330 is almost as handy as a Leica M in size and > shape, and way more creative. I will finally believe that Leica is > pursuing its finest creative tradition of the past when it gets over > its attachment to the past and incorporates ALL that digital has to > offer in a camera. > > Gary Todoroff > http://northcoastphotos.com/Lympa.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >