Wrotniak is good. There are a couple of other sites listed at the
yahoo list page. There isn't any real way to do manual focus with it.
I mostly just zone focused, which, with the dof these things have
really works pretty well. It's a tough little camera and I used the
hell out of it. Probably should have been a little more careful in
the rain. Mine has ended up with a couple of electronic quirks. The
menu system is quite complex, but works pretty well once you get used
to it. I depend quite heavily on the eight user customizable
settings. Mostly it's small, very quiet and able to take good pix.
At 12:48 PM -0400 7/6/05, Graywolf wrote:
Thanks Alan, I will have to check out that list. Most of the stuff I
have looked at on the web has been posted by idiots.
Example: The manual focus stinks, I can not tell any difference on
the monitor between nearby and far away.
My imediate mental response: With a 7mm lens set to f/8 pretty much
everything from about 1 meter (3 feet) to infinity is sharp. How
could you expect to tell the difference on the monitor?
Only one site I have found seems to be done by someone who thinks
rather than parroting nonsense:
http://www.wrotniak.net/photo/c5050/
graywolf
http://www.graywolfphoto.com
"Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof"
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Alan P. Hayes wrote:
I took a whole lot of pictures with mine before I got my istD. It's
a great camera. As Godfrey notes it can be frustratingly slow,
probably the main reason I went to a DSLR, but it does take very
nice pictures. Pretty good for low light stuff, given the sensor
size.
I'd recommend getting an auxiliary lens mount adaptor, mostly to
protect the lens. Oh and there's a list for these over at Yahoo.
Gets almost as many posts as this one does!
At 10:29 PM -0400 7/3/05, Graywolf wrote:
I just did a BIN on a used Oylmpus C-5050. That makes me a double
traitor. Buying a digi-tal, and buying a foreign brand. I have
wanted one of these since they were anounced but had to wait until
I could get it for pocket change. Hey, I am buying a camera that
is only 3-4 years old, not 50+, but I guess that is the same thing
in digital.
Oh well! --
graywolf
http://www.graywolfphoto.com
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