Shandy
05-20-2006, 05:53 PM
Hello one and all
My name is Andy and I live in North West England. I have followed the forum for a while after I bought my E-500 in December. You may have read my post about the weird artefacts thing with the 8mm and E-500 (sorry about that - I suppose I should have introduced myself first). A little about myself: Married, one daughter, self employed (acoustics). I live and grew up in the Lake District in England. Photography has always fascinated me, one of my earliest memories is wondering why I had to stand still and smile with all the aunts and uncles, while someone did something mysterious with a box with a strange piece of glass at the front. I just had to get a closer look at this thing!
I started with SLRs when I was about 16 years old (24 years ago). My first was a manual Praktica, the standard lens was OK towards the centre of the image, but it did some weird things at the edges. Then I worked my way through a Minolta XG-something (really nice lenses in those days) to a Canon A-1. Which I loved.
Then work, marriage, etc. It's been said so many times. Eventually I found myself with a little more time and money and had been keeping an eye on the prices of DSLRs. So I went to my local camera shop with the intention of trying and then buying the 350D (remember my A-1?). I picked it up, rattled off a few shots, and made lots of ummm and errrr noises.
The shop guy said "try this" and handed me the E-500. (Now I have to say at this point, and please don't shoot at me, that I never liked the OM cameras, more accurately, the OM-10. I tried an OM-10 and the sloppy feel to it just put me off). Straight away the E-500 felt "right" in the hand. To cut a long story short I walked out of the shop with the twin lens kit (after paying for it, of course).
I absolutely love the way digital has changed and re-awakened my interest in photography. And now I can bore people all over the world about it as well.
Cheers
Andy
p.s. I'll post some images as soon as I can work out how to make room in the attachments area.
pps. Managed to clear a little space and posted a flower image in the Photos forum.
My name is Andy and I live in North West England. I have followed the forum for a while after I bought my E-500 in December. You may have read my post about the weird artefacts thing with the 8mm and E-500 (sorry about that - I suppose I should have introduced myself first). A little about myself: Married, one daughter, self employed (acoustics). I live and grew up in the Lake District in England. Photography has always fascinated me, one of my earliest memories is wondering why I had to stand still and smile with all the aunts and uncles, while someone did something mysterious with a box with a strange piece of glass at the front. I just had to get a closer look at this thing!
I started with SLRs when I was about 16 years old (24 years ago). My first was a manual Praktica, the standard lens was OK towards the centre of the image, but it did some weird things at the edges. Then I worked my way through a Minolta XG-something (really nice lenses in those days) to a Canon A-1. Which I loved.
Then work, marriage, etc. It's been said so many times. Eventually I found myself with a little more time and money and had been keeping an eye on the prices of DSLRs. So I went to my local camera shop with the intention of trying and then buying the 350D (remember my A-1?). I picked it up, rattled off a few shots, and made lots of ummm and errrr noises.
The shop guy said "try this" and handed me the E-500. (Now I have to say at this point, and please don't shoot at me, that I never liked the OM cameras, more accurately, the OM-10. I tried an OM-10 and the sloppy feel to it just put me off). Straight away the E-500 felt "right" in the hand. To cut a long story short I walked out of the shop with the twin lens kit (after paying for it, of course).
I absolutely love the way digital has changed and re-awakened my interest in photography. And now I can bore people all over the world about it as well.
Cheers
Andy
p.s. I'll post some images as soon as I can work out how to make room in the attachments area.
pps. Managed to clear a little space and posted a flower image in the Photos forum.