stephanieNY

My new camera came this week.  I took it for its first spin today around my neighborhood.  I'm getting the hang of it in automatic mode, but there's a lot of big technology and complex interfaces in there that I need to figure out before I attempt manual.

It's hard to take a picture of a camera with the camera, so here we are in the mirror.

I've been in the market for a new camera for-ever.  With all the hemming and hawing I've been doing about it, you'd think I was buying a house or something.  I've been reading all these reviews on digital SLRs and now the new micro four-thirds cameras.  For a while, I was being woo-ed by the simplicity of the solid retro body of the Olympus e-p1:

But let's face it, I need to take good pictures, not look good taking them.  So, my photography class and my impending trip to Brazil put a fire under my butt, and I finally made a move and ordered one today.  It'll be here on Wednesday...and I don't know if I'm gonna make it that long. I want to play with it right now!  I had dinner at a friend's last night where we talked shop on cameras, and I tested out a few they had in house...it was a dream. After shooting with my point and shoot the past few weeks, I think a good camera is going to be life-changing. 

Anyway, here it is.  It's sort of the "baby's first" camera of DSLRs but I'm pretty sure it's just what I need.