Jason Tag Photography

I’ve been thinking a lot about my camera, which is a year old Olympus E-500. It’s a great camera but I’m starting to see it’s limitations. So I’ve been looking at other cameras. One camera that has caught my eye is the Nikon D80. It looks like a great camera. I have not held it but I have seen images from other photographers using this camera. If that’s any indication I think I’d like to pick one up someday. Image resolution is 10.2mp. A big consderation for me when looking at any new camera is image resolution. I almost bought Nikon’s D40 but saw that it was actually a 6mp camera. But it felt really good in my hands.

Of course I’m worried about having to also buy new lenses and a flash if I switch to Nikon. I like my camera but my only gripe is that the viewfinder is rather small. That makes it diffucult to use the manual focus because you can’t see how you’re focused very well. I end up zooming in to where I want to focus, focus, and then pull out. Then I take the shot. It slows me down a little bit.

If I did keep it in the family I would pick up an Olympus E-510. It looks like a very nice camera. It’s 10mp which is better than my current 8mp camera. And it looks like it ships with similar lenses to what I have. Although if I bought one I would have to check it out first to see whether they fixed the viewfinder or not. for me that’s the biggest point.

Then there’s my dream camera….

When I saw that Canon had come out with a 21.1 mega-pixel camera I though it was a typo that should have said 12.1mp. I was also shocked because the largest resolution I’ve seen from Nikon is around 12mp. I could be wrong about that though. Canon’s EOS 1DS Mark III looks like a hell of a camera. The reason why it’s my dream camera is because it would actually take somewhere around $15,000 for me to re-outfit myself properly with this camera. New lenses, bigger memory cards, flash units. I wouldn’t mind spending that kind of money on this camera if I had it to spend.

For now I’m content with with my camera and content to dream of better days when I can afford truly great gear…

Sweet dreams Indeed,
Jason Tag