This is the camera that I have been using. Yup, all of the photos on this blog, plus my web site have been done with the Olympus. I could take around 30 shots, without flash and in temperatures above 30. It ate up batteries, 4 double A’s. It had a 3x zoom and auto focus, which didn’t always work.
I talk about this camera in the past tense, only becuase I have a new camera. Yes in dee dee, cream of wheaty, it came yesterday.
I was like a little kid getting a birthday gift. Unpacked the Nikon D60, plus the telephoto lense, plus the macro lens, plus the fisheye lense, camera back, battery charger, battery, extra battery, camera bag, mini tripod, regular tripod, lens cleaner and USB memory card transfer thingy. Sat down and discovered that there was no memory or picture card. The camera came as a package with most of the add-on lens. I did get a zoom lens, 55-200.
What? I check through everything and relized that the 2mg. picture memory card was missing and that the extra one that should have come with the USB transfer card was not there as well. I called the the photo store in the Bronx and they said they would send it right away.
I am a bit (ok stop laughing Lili) impatient and so I went down to my local camera place and got a 1 mb picture card for $29.99. The home again and out I went to play. For about 3 hours. 90 photos! still have battery and room on the card. There is a lot to learn. F stops and lens, lighting and which lens to use for which shots. This will keep me busy for a while.
The light was not as good as it was in the morning, so lots of fog. But here is where I live. These were all taken on our land, or on the road above our house.
