Forum: Photography


Subject: To SLR or not to SLR?

inshaala opened this issue on Jun 29, 2006 ยท 10 posts


girsempa posted Thu, 29 June 2006 at 8:36 AM

I bought an Olympus E-500 Dual Zoom Lens Kit for 808 Euro (must be less than 700). It's an 8MPixel DSLR with the most creative options to be found in that category. The lenses are 14-45mm (28-90mm equivalent) and 40-150mm (80-300 in 35mm equivalent). The dual lens kit is the most popular buy here, because it's such a good value. Only drawback (at the moment) is that Olympus have developed their own line of excellent Digital Specific Lenses, based on the Four Thirds standards, which means that you are limited if you want to use non-Olympus lenses. Luckily they have the widest range of lenses in the market, but they're a bit short on telemacro lenses, I discovered. But I'm almost sure they're still widening their range... The obvious advantage of DSLR is that you can have more variety and more quality for the lenses. There may be no point in buying A DSLR if you're perfectly happy with the fixed lens on a hybrid prosumer camera...


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