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 Posted: 02:30 am

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I've been wanting a digital SLR camara for some time, to use when hiking, biking etc.

I picked up the Olympus E-Volt 500 with 2 lenses (package deal for $700).

The lenses were 14 - 45 digital zoom and a 50 - 150 digital zoom.

I also added a few Seagate 8 GB CF photo-drives for storage.

That camara kicks booty, I've been snapping a lot of quick shots of my cat as well as the surroundings in the mountains where I work.  Lots of fun so far.

The amount of control and capability on these new camaras amazes me, I grew up with an olympus om-1 and om-2 and this is just like where I left off, only no film.

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You should have gone for the Nikon D70 or D50 or one of the Canon models.  Noone uses Olympus anymore (that's why it was so cheap).
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Thanks for the cool pics!
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xpdr wrote: Thanks for the cool pics!

I compared to the Nikon and canon, the Olympus had better numbers.  2 lenses vs 1, 8mp vs 6.1mp (nikon), I think the canon was 8 so that was a wash.  The Olympus was $100 more for the package, but the additional lense would be about $400 from nikon or canon so this was a better deal.

I doubt that no one using olympus is a fact, there are more olympus lense configurations than most any of the other camaras I looked at.  Plus, even if no one else used one, I still will have pictures and it doesn't matter much.

Xpipe, I'll post some photos when I get them moved off the drive.  I'm in a call now and sorta busy (not busy enough too stop from goofing off posting here once in a while).

 

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Congratulations !!! You should have a lot of fun with that setup :)

I spent WAY too much for a new Nikon D-200. I wish I'd done a bit more shopping.

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