[rollei_list] Re: Article

At 02:59 PM 5/25/2006 -0700, you wrote:
Anyone interested in Digital Photography, I was fortunate to have an article published in Ranegfinder.

<http://www.rangefindermag.com/magazine/May06/36.tml>http://www.rangefindermag.com/magazine/May06/36.tml

Nice survey article. I agree with the notion that some whites and blacks may be out of the range of digital sensors.

I just gave away my first $99 digital, after using it as a learning tool for the past 4-5 years.

I now have an Olympus E-500, which is a true SLR with interchangeable zoom lenses, and it has some interesting features, which include a variety of analysis tools. Most of them are histograms of one type or another, to analyze an image.

You can ask it to tell you (and mark) the highlights and shadow areas, which are out of range, that is they are beyond a range where any content exists. You have the choice of accepting the image, or adjusting the camera to better handle them. Nice feature.

When I look back to the days when I lusted for an Olympus E-10 and then an E-20, costing from $4,000 and then drifting down to maybe $1,000, I can see that waiting was the thing to do. Even more intestering is that my wife just got a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX3, which performs very well compared to the E-500 at less than half the price. It even has a Leica DC Vario -Elmarit lens. No red dot though. It's great for impromptu party shots, etc. Same size as a cigarette package, although I don't have a package to compare it with.

One of the reasons I like the Olympus products is that they have a correction lens that attempts to make all image light reach the sensor at a normal angle.



Don Williams
La Jolla, CA

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