Another year passes, now I’m 66 years old. So far it doesn’t feel too bad.
Today Jan gave me a new lens for my micro four-thirds Olympus OMD EM10. (It’s a really silly name for a camera, they should call it the Bonzo or the Rover).
The lens is a zoom 40-150mm, equivalent to an 80-300 35mm zoom. There’s a lot of numbers in photography these days. I’ve been trying it out and I’m very pleased with it. It’s very light, quick to focus, and seems to produce very sharp images.
My test subject for the new lens was (surprise) Ripley the cat, and here’s a picture. I’ve smallened it to put on the website (the original is 3.18 MB), but the original is very sharp when enlarged. The bokeh is very acceptable (excellent word, look it up!).
The camera is a lovely bit of equipment. It will take a while for me to dive below the surface level of all the features and get to the advanced stuff. I’ve scanned the manual, but it has 161 pages of detail to absorb.
