Photography

[Nurvingiel]

Originally Posted by Elanor's Angel

I've been looking into an Olympus for myself.
What features do you love and what do you dislike? This goes for all you care to give me there opinion. Any camera realy, what do you all suggest?

Love: the quality and general non-bluriness of the pictures. It doesn't like low-light conditions much, but that's because it's working hard to take a not blurry picture.

You'll notice this if you're taking a picture in a dark room, the camera will take one or two seconds longer than normal to take the picture, and you can hear it "thinking" the whole time. Later you'll download your pictures and think, "Wow, I never expected that one to turn out!"

I also love the functionality and easy use of the camera. I didn't even have to read the manual (much)!

Has red-eye reduction flash (it works too). Basically there's a bonus flash before the actual picture taking.

Handles lights and shiny surfaces well.
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/30618738/

Can take panorama pictures.

Can take night shots. I recently discovered the awesomeness of this feature and will explore it more. (I recommend a tripod, but anything that holds your camera still and horizontal will work. eg. a pile of flat rocks, the top of a table, the top of a flat fence, etc.)
A night shot I took: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/29376715/

Easy to download from it.


Don't like:
The craaazy flash. I think it's too bright and I don't like it. Pictures look pretty decent with the flash as long as the photographer is 3+ meters away from the subject. You can turn it off though and take an ambiant light photo. I usually do that.

The macro function does not appear to do anything. (Maybe I should read the manual..?)


My camera is one-and-a-half years old now, so you can get a more advanced model for the same price (which I don't know because it was a gift) or even less. Maybe some of my quibbles will have been improved upon.

(I have other photos at my deviantArt account too. </plugging> )