Jock Elliott
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I was just posting a reply to "Yes, the camera does make a difference" when I noticed the date next to my avatar: Jan. 3, 2012. Seems like yesterday.
Since then, this forum has morphed from Serious Compacts to Photographers' Lounge and back again. Back then, I was shooting with an Olympus D-550, which I used professionally to illustrate the stories and blogs that I was writing. I still have it, and it still works. Then the Canon G12 (which my son now has), the Panasonic FX150 (which my wife now has), the Panasonic FZ200 (which won my heart but twice sucked up dust on its sensor and is now gone), the Panasonic LX100 (an amazing camera but also a collector of dust and now gone), and the Olympus OMD EM5 Mk. I and Mk. II. The OMDs I treat like Serious Compacts . . . each has "its" lens, and I try to avoid removing them. The XP90 lives in a coat pocket, is rugged and idiosyncratic when it comes to rendering images. Finally, there is the Sony HX400V, which continues to amaze me with its reach and punchy images, but it doesn't have the low light chops that the FZ200 had.
While the traffic here on Serious Compacts is far less than, say, the M43 forum (who can deal with more than a thousand posts a day?!!), I really appreciate the folks who post here. And three cheers for the good folks who moderate with such a deft touch.
Finally, just for nostalgia's sake, here is a reprise of the first three images I posted, taken with the D-550.
Cheers, Jock
Since then, this forum has morphed from Serious Compacts to Photographers' Lounge and back again. Back then, I was shooting with an Olympus D-550, which I used professionally to illustrate the stories and blogs that I was writing. I still have it, and it still works. Then the Canon G12 (which my son now has), the Panasonic FX150 (which my wife now has), the Panasonic FZ200 (which won my heart but twice sucked up dust on its sensor and is now gone), the Panasonic LX100 (an amazing camera but also a collector of dust and now gone), and the Olympus OMD EM5 Mk. I and Mk. II. The OMDs I treat like Serious Compacts . . . each has "its" lens, and I try to avoid removing them. The XP90 lives in a coat pocket, is rugged and idiosyncratic when it comes to rendering images. Finally, there is the Sony HX400V, which continues to amaze me with its reach and punchy images, but it doesn't have the low light chops that the FZ200 had.
While the traffic here on Serious Compacts is far less than, say, the M43 forum (who can deal with more than a thousand posts a day?!!), I really appreciate the folks who post here. And three cheers for the good folks who moderate with such a deft touch.
Finally, just for nostalgia's sake, here is a reprise of the first three images I posted, taken with the D-550.
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Cheers, Jock