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I just joined today after getting a tip that this was a really friendly forum for Oly advice. I've come to the stage where I need to get technical on the camera I actually have, so a brand forum should be useful.
I started taking photos on holidays etc. when I got an Olympus XA when I was 13, which I thought was a really cool little camera then, and I still think it is now. After high school I purchased my first 35 mm SLR, an OM40 which I became very fond of. I still have it, along with a couple of lenses and a very good Metz flash. I think the XA lives with my parents. As a student I joined a photo club, and started taking photography more seriously and it became an enjoyable hobby, but limited by film cost and lens prices
But never so poor as a student that there won't be a lot of 
, so I bought the first edition of Mju, a darling little thing that would fit in any party outfit (still talking camera).
Then the kids came along and life was over
Just kidding, but for some reason I didn't take many photos until I got a small Canon IXUS some eightish years ago and discovered how practical digital was. Well, then I wanted better photos, so I bought my first digital SLR, a Canon EOS 350 with a kit Tamron zoom lens.
By then I had started getting more and more opportunities to take photos for documentary purposes at work, e.g. aerial photographic inventories of parts of the Norwegian coastline from helicopters or planes for oil spill contingency purposes. I was never satisfied with the pictures I was getting from the cheapest EOS and slow lens, and after having tried a really expensive Nikon borrowed from work with a Nikkor 200mm f2.0 (or something) for a open-door flight around Bear Island, I just new I had to get something better for my own use. After a day in an aeroplane I also knew I had to get something much more manageable than the Nikon I had tried. I am, after all, a weak and feeble woman
The choice of the E-3 two years ago was easy. Relatively light-weight for its quality, dust and splash proof, it was an easy choice for someone whose line of work brings one to wet places. Along with the E-3 I have the ED 12-60mm 1:2.8-4.0 SWD, the ED 50-200mm 1:2.8-3.5 SWD, ED 50mm 1:2.0 Macro and ED 7-14mm 1:4.0 lenses, an EC20 teleconverter and the FL-50R flash and have recently ordered the EC14 (might sell the EC20...) and an extra flash. My son now owns the EOS...
At the moment, I use photography in my work, but I'm definately not a professional photographer. It's like using Word doesn't make you a writer But I do get to go to some pretty great places, and I believe that photos that are taken for documenting science can be well exposed and well composed as well. I am also trying to master the art side a little better as well, currently concentrating on landscapes and birds. I took one of David Noton's workshops in November last year, and am taking a bird-photography course in the end of July.
I've come to the stage where I need to master the technical and theoretical side more, and getting camera-specific advice will be very useful. Looking forward to posting and learning. Lots!
I usually place my photos here: http://csspikkerud.zenfolio.com/
I think I can see a definite development in my work from 2007 to 2010. I hope.
I started taking photos on holidays etc. when I got an Olympus XA when I was 13, which I thought was a really cool little camera then, and I still think it is now. After high school I purchased my first 35 mm SLR, an OM40 which I became very fond of. I still have it, along with a couple of lenses and a very good Metz flash. I think the XA lives with my parents. As a student I joined a photo club, and started taking photography more seriously and it became an enjoyable hobby, but limited by film cost and lens prices
But never so poor as a student that there won't be a lot of , so I bought the first edition of Mju, a darling little thing that would fit in any party outfit (still talking camera).Then the kids came along and life was over
Just kidding, but for some reason I didn't take many photos until I got a small Canon IXUS some eightish years ago and discovered how practical digital was. Well, then I wanted better photos, so I bought my first digital SLR, a Canon EOS 350 with a kit Tamron zoom lens. By then I had started getting more and more opportunities to take photos for documentary purposes at work, e.g. aerial photographic inventories of parts of the Norwegian coastline from helicopters or planes for oil spill contingency purposes. I was never satisfied with the pictures I was getting from the cheapest EOS and slow lens, and after having tried a really expensive Nikon borrowed from work with a Nikkor 200mm f2.0 (or something) for a open-door flight around Bear Island, I just new I had to get something better for my own use. After a day in an aeroplane I also knew I had to get something much more manageable than the Nikon I had tried. I am, after all, a weak and feeble woman
The choice of the E-3 two years ago was easy. Relatively light-weight for its quality, dust and splash proof, it was an easy choice for someone whose line of work brings one to wet places. Along with the E-3 I have the ED 12-60mm 1:2.8-4.0 SWD, the ED 50-200mm 1:2.8-3.5 SWD, ED 50mm 1:2.0 Macro and ED 7-14mm 1:4.0 lenses, an EC20 teleconverter and the FL-50R flash and have recently ordered the EC14 (might sell the EC20...) and an extra flash. My son now owns the EOS...
At the moment, I use photography in my work, but I'm definately not a professional photographer. It's like using Word doesn't make you a writer
But I do get to go to some pretty great places, and I believe that photos that are taken for documenting science can be well exposed and well composed as well. I am also trying to master the art side a little better as well, currently concentrating on landscapes and birds. I took one of David Noton's workshops in November last year, and am taking a bird-photography course in the end of July. I've come to the stage where I need to master the technical and theoretical side more, and getting camera-specific advice will be very useful. Looking forward to posting and learning. Lots!
I usually place my photos here: http://csspikkerud.zenfolio.com/
I think I can see a definite development in my work from 2007 to 2010. I hope.
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