Click, Click
September 10, 2008 at 10:14 pm 6 comments
This is my new toy. It’s an Olympus SP570 Ultra Zoom with a 35 mm lens equivalency of 26-520mm. It’s the best camera I’ve ever owned for street photography.
My last camera with a long range lens is a Nikon N-70 film camera with a 300mm telephoto. It is a truck compared to this one. All my photography for the past several years has been with a Canon PowerShot point and shoot with limited range.
What a trip this camera is. I carry it everywhere using the wrist strap from my Canon instead of the more typical neck strap that came with the camera. It is very unobtrusive compared to a DSLR with telephoto zoom. It’s doubtful that I’ll ever go back to an SLR.
I’ve got a ton of pix to upload to Flickr. What a time consuming job that is. Check out this set of 3 pix of the Queen Mary 2 leaving the harbor. They were shot in the early evening at long range through the haze.
Lots more to come!
See if you can keep up with this guy. Good luck! 
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Karen | September 11, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Very cool camera….maybe I should consider adding one to my collection!
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greenscaper | September 11, 2008 at 8:02 pm
It cost a total of $477 including a 2 gig card and tax. I was prepared to spend a lot more for a DSLR. I’m glad I made this choice. Try it out when you visit in Oct. The only shortcoming is the zoom is a bit slow to react when launching it.
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Heather | September 19, 2008 at 1:06 am
Hurray! You’re back to blogging here! Can’t wait for more posts! Really cool camera.
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greenscaper | September 20, 2008 at 10:45 am
Hey Heather…the evil aspect of this little toy is that I could spend all my time editing and uploading pix to Flickr. I’ve also had a ton of interesting experiences to blog about. The top priority, however, is InsideUrbanGreen.org where the battle against horticultural ignorance lives on.
The Big Apple is truly a 3-ring circus!
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Karen | September 21, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Hey,
Saw your awesome monitor – bet that makes picture editing really fun!
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greenscaper | September 22, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Picture editing is one of my necessary chores…but never “fun”
It’s only fun when my monitor becomes my “TV” watching C-Span and YouTube. I sure don’t miss regular TV.