My Trendy Camera : OLYMPUS

When I was 25 years old I have ever had an Olympus View Finder camera. A small one. The body was silver and black. Simple operating. Light in weight, easy to carry, and stylist at that time. A lot of memories in my first life, after I got married, had been taken by this. White-Black and also colors. One advantage of this camera was the efficiency. It only used a half of negative film. So the film had 36 exp capacity by another one, become used twice, 72 exposes by the Olympus. A shortage of this camera, as View Finder another camera in general, is about the lens cap. Don’t forget to open the cap. Because you always be able to see the object even-though the lens are still closed. So if you shoot it, there isn’t any image can be caught.

Ricoh 500 SLR

As a young journalist I changed my camera. From the View Finder system to the Single Lense Reflector (SLR). But still used film as a media. I didn’t worry about the lens cap. If I forgot to open the cap, the object disappeared in screen.

Yasica Box for large film.

Journalist sometimes received special duties. At that time my editor needed an image for the cover of magazine. I should take the picture by positive and large film. So I bought Yasica Box Camera. Many pictures had been taken, as Borobudur or Prambanan Temple then became the illustration covering the magazine.

Canon SLR

In 1989 I went to Japan for a short course. In Tokyo I bought Canon E1 SLR Camera. Black body and was rather heavier than Ricoh 500. The price was also more expensive than Ricoh. The camera supported undertaking my duties as a journalist.

Olympus DSLR E-420

Now I have already bought the Olympus DSLR E-420. I spent money about six and half million rupiahs (about 650 US Dollars). This camera is nice to be used. It can be brought in pocket of your jacket (if you use pancake lens). Many features are obtained using this one.

This camera is equipped with a clear Viewfinder, nice Super control panel, and wide LCD monitor for live view or play-back. When I bought it, the camera seller gave a set of camera and the accessories consisted of: body cap, strap, BLS-1 Lithium ion battery, BCS-1 Lithium ion charger, USB Cable, video cable, Software Olympus Master 2 CD-ROM, Instruction manual book, Warranty Card, eyepiece cover, 14-42 mm/3.2-5.6 f lense, 40-150 mm/4-5.6 f tele-lens, Memory Card Scandisk UltraII 2 GB, and a lense hood LH 61-C.

With this digital camera I don’t need to worry about the film. All of digital cameras use virtual film that can be operated in many purposes. The images that had been taken can be deleted, over-writen or moved to another media. No film inside. Just Memory card is inside. Take the pictures as much as I can, fit in with the capacity of memory card.

Now I still learn with my new camera. I have got many good pictures by it. I am enjoying this tool.

I have the Olympus one, and I am completely proud. For me, the first camera was Olympus, the last camera, I hope, will be my Olympus too. Thank you Olympus!

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