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Analog shooter finally goes Digital
Greetings,
I've been lurking around here for a while and decided that it is time to get involved. I've been using Olympus cameras since my first OM1 in the 1970s. That one is long gone but I still have my OM1n, OM2n, OM4 and original XA plus a bunch of lenses, camera backs, adapters, a Light Meter and Flash heads. Admittedly none of them have seen the light of day in the past few years but they are all dust free and working.
I worked as a Freelance Press photographer for about 10 years before coming to Germany where I spent 8 years as a civilian photographer doing documentary work for the US Army. During my time with the Americans I got involved in producing multi-projector computer-controlled slide shows and later Film and Video production. I moved to "civilian life" shortly before the military presence was reduced and continued working with the main emphasis geared more and more to video production and editing.
I very rarely shot colour negative stock, especially for my private work, using mostly Slide film with B&W once in a while. I developed all of my own work in a small Darkroom where I could even process E-6 in a JOBO processor.
Enough of the past. I'm still editing video using Avid Media Composer but really needed to get back to stills. For that reason I got an OMD E-1 Mark lll with the 12-200 zoom. I've only shot about 1000 photos so far and still getting used to the whole menu system. Gone are the days of getting the little needle just in the middle of the + and - marks, taking a shot and then bracketing one shot either side of that just to be safe and save film. Now I have a Computer system packed in a small body with a 300+ page user manual, that doesn't appear to be available anywhere in the Olympus store in printed form, full of nothing but cross references designed to drive the user up the walls. I've basically just glanced through the manual for some basics, viewed a few excellent videos on YT and then gone out and started shooting the way I'm accustomed to. Fortunately I did get a second battery for the camera as leaving it on stand-by can drain one quite quickly.
That's more than enough for now. I'll save any other comments for the respective Forum sections.
I've been lurking around here for a while and decided that it is time to get involved. I've been using Olympus cameras since my first OM1 in the 1970s. That one is long gone but I still have my OM1n, OM2n, OM4 and original XA plus a bunch of lenses, camera backs, adapters, a Light Meter and Flash heads. Admittedly none of them have seen the light of day in the past few years but they are all dust free and working.
I worked as a Freelance Press photographer for about 10 years before coming to Germany where I spent 8 years as a civilian photographer doing documentary work for the US Army. During my time with the Americans I got involved in producing multi-projector computer-controlled slide shows and later Film and Video production. I moved to "civilian life" shortly before the military presence was reduced and continued working with the main emphasis geared more and more to video production and editing.
I very rarely shot colour negative stock, especially for my private work, using mostly Slide film with B&W once in a while. I developed all of my own work in a small Darkroom where I could even process E-6 in a JOBO processor.
Enough of the past. I'm still editing video using Avid Media Composer but really needed to get back to stills. For that reason I got an OMD E-1 Mark lll with the 12-200 zoom. I've only shot about 1000 photos so far and still getting used to the whole menu system. Gone are the days of getting the little needle just in the middle of the + and - marks, taking a shot and then bracketing one shot either side of that just to be safe and save film. Now I have a Computer system packed in a small body with a 300+ page user manual, that doesn't appear to be available anywhere in the Olympus store in printed form, full of nothing but cross references designed to drive the user up the walls. I've basically just glanced through the manual for some basics, viewed a few excellent videos on YT and then gone out and started shooting the way I'm accustomed to. Fortunately I did get a second battery for the camera as leaving it on stand-by can drain one quite quickly.
That's more than enough for now. I'll save any other comments for the respective Forum sections.
It's never too late to switch to digital. glad that you decided on the olympus way. As Mike mentioned, if you miss your old habits, just turn the dial to M and you have everything. I have given up on the printed manual as it's written by engineers and not photographers. you get more help here in the forum. So don't be shy on asking. it can be a simple question like what's SCP.
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