plonq | New camera

We settled on the Olympus camera and picked it up this weekend.

The first camera I bought was a Yashica FX-D. It wasn't the top of the line as cameras go, but it was current with the technology of the day. I spent a little extra and got the Contax lens for it. Having an f1.7 stop was very nice. This was a fairly rugged little camera and lasted for ten years of hard use before the shutter became "sticky". Most of my best pictures to date came from this camera. Until it stopped working, the only problem I'd had with this camera was that the "skin" peeled off the case. I see from this picture I found online that the problem was not isolated to my camera...
I bought this one about ten years ago. I shot many rolls of bad pictures before I finally made the adjustment to this camera. I didn't really start getting good results until I said, "Piss on this fully automated crap", and I started either shooting shutter-priority, or full manual. This has been a good, trouble-free camera
This is our latest baby. I researched this one to death, though given that it costs as much as my last two cameras combined that's no small wonder. I've only had time to snap a couple of pictures with it, but based on the early results I think we have a winner. I'm excited (bouncebounce). If the weather is nice tomorrow I might drag atara up to the park for a walk.

Here is a picture of my cat. Here is another one. Both were shot with the default out-of-the-box settings, and scaled down to 800x600 after I transfered them to my computer. One is shot with the flash, the other without. Composition aside, I think the results are pretty good.