It's an Exciting Day

I've just checked the UPS site again for the 273d time in the past two days. You see, I've got some pretty exciting packages coming in the brown truck today. As you've seen by the flower photos I've posted lately, I've been getting back into the photography more and more. I've even joined a site where I can sell my photographs and see and review others and get mine reviewed. I have been debating back and forth for a few months on whether to go to digital SLR or not and I had pretty well decided on the Nikon D90. Then I got an email about a new camera by Pentax, I think it was the K-7, that is just about to be released. I've been using a book about Photoshop CS4 to learn how to use that fantastic software better and I noticed a lot of his photos were taken on Olympus cameras. So happens my last 35mm film SLR was an Olympus and they are famous for the quality and sharpness of their Zuiko lenses. So I started looking at the Olympus' and reading every review I could get my hands on. One review site that I've found called Digital Photography Review has really in depth reviews including a lot of tests. They compare apples to apples on the different cameras and lenses and really give it a working over. Some of their reviews are over 20 pages long. After pulling up identical images taken with the Nikon D90 and the Olympus E-30 and zooming in on them with both of them side by side on my screen, I decided to go the little extra $$ and get the Olympus. While I was at it I went ahead and ordered the Zuiko 50mm Macro lens. I'm sure you know by now my love for macro. Another thing I like about the Olympus is the flip out viewfinder. The other day when I was up in the mountains taking photos with my current camera I found several things I wish I had. One was a smaller f-stop. My camera will only go down to F-8. Another was a flip out viewfinder so I could get at better angles. Don't get me wrong, my current camera is probably the best non-SLR on the market, dpreview will verify that, and I will really miss that 18 X optical zoom, and 8 megapixel plus is nothing to scoff at. But, I really want to get serious with my photography, and for that you really have to have an SLR. Right??? Here are a couple of the photos I took the other day. Obviously these were taken with my current camera as I have not received the new one yet.

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