Update on My Olympus SP-570UZ
I think I mentioned that I bought a new digital camera: an Olympus SP-570UZ. I just wanted to give an update about the camera.
Quite simply, I love it.
I had an older Olympus D series camera and loved it as well, but was ready for more megapixels and more zoom and more handling options. The 570UZ has a 20x optical zoom, room for the use of additional professional lenses and filters, the option to use the hot shoe for the flash and the option to go fully manual.
As of yet, I have just used it as a point and shoot. It’s comfortable in the hand, quick on the mark and super easy to navigate around the menus and such. It helps that I am already intimate with the typical Olympus buttons and symbols. I had to get used to a whole new type of data card. I used to use a Smart Media card and reader. Once I struggled through the difference between SD cards, micro sd cards, Xd cards (both M and H types) then I was ready to go.
The camera is what I consider to be just one step below a digital SLR. I am not ready to invest the time into learning to use an SLR right now, but once I am I can go fully manual on this. It’s lacking some of the finer, more sensitive imaging components you will get in a fully SLR cameras, but you’ll hardly notice.
I want to share with you a panoramic shot I took in Harpers Ferry, WV. In the picture you can see Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia as well as both the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers. I’m also including a pretty cool picture I took through glass, using a flash, or Abraham Lincoln’s life mask.
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