Olympus E620 Digital SLR Review

By guest contributor Grace Cole

Grace is a casual team member of our Inverell store and a full time school student. Grace’s article demonstrates the ease with which a novice photographer can pick up a modern Digital SLR and take great photos. It is easy to forget that we all start somewhere and through this review by Grace you can see her hesitation at first turn into surprise and confidence to get great photos with ease. Happy reading, Warren Wilson – Editor!

I enjoy photography and I was asked if I would write a review for a Digital SLR camera.

To start with I was very nervous as I had never used a camera of this size or with these features before.  My first impressions of a Digital SLR was that they were not very modern and that it would be complicated, But the Olympus E620 I chose was lighter and easier than I had expected. Read more

Photographing Abrolhos Islands

From guest contributor Peter Langston (Lango)

Read more about Peter here and on facebook. Peter is a customer of the Eastmon Tamworth store.

After three months in WA, you might think it hard to pinpoint one outstanding day above all else.
It is, but only if you have never been to the Abrolhos Islands..
The Abrolhos are an archipelago of three groups of islands (Easter, Wallabi and Pelsaert) and coral reefs which lie in the Indian Ocean and are home to a rich diversity of wildlife and for a large part of each year, Cray fishermen who work the waters for the lucrative return of Western Rock Lobsters raised in the warm waters of the Leeuwin stream, flowing south from the tropics along the WA coast. Read more