Olympus E620 Digital SLR Review

By guest contributor Grace Cole

Olympus_E620Grace 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

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Shooting Great Pictures at Home

By guest contributor Peter Langston (Lango)

The view from the Tamworth lookout is spectacular but like most scenic views, once you’ve seen it … unless it’s the start of the day and a dense fog is just clearing and you catch the morning flight from Sydney on its final approach. This was shot on my Canon 50D EOS in AV mode, mounted on a Slik Pro500DX tripod at f5.6, 1/1000sec and 100 ISO with the 18-200mm lens set to 135mm and picture style on landscape.

The view from the Tamworth lookout is spectacular but like most scenic views, once you’ve seen it … unless it’s the start of the day and a dense fog is just clearing and you catch the morning flight from Sydney on its final approach. This was shot on my Canon 50D EOS in AV mode, mounted on a Slik Pro500DX tripod at f5.6, 1/1000sec and 100 ISO with the 18-200mm lens set to 135mm and picture style on landscape.

I’ve travelled a fair portion of Australia, with only Tasmania and the tropical north of Qld still escaping my lens and it would be a reasonable assumption that whilst all of those kilometres enveloped me in their protection from all things “back home”, they also gave me opportunities to take some spectacular photographs. Read more