Hi all, I'm a strictly amateur photographer who used to shoot film in a Pentax ME super back in the early 80s through mid 90s. In the late 90's I bought an Olympus digital and have been using one form or another of point and shoots since the late 90's, some moderately configurable, some not so much.
Well, I recently decided I wanted pics like I used to shoot with my old Pentax so I impulse bought an Olympus Pen-E-PL3 kit and an Olympus digital ED 45 f1.8. Here's my questions:
1) Did I screw up with getting a PL3? I'm shooting for my own entertainment and I don't need huge resolution. Easily portable, lots of user settings and vibrant sharp picture quality is the goal.
2) I shoot a lot of macro shots of machine parts (trying to capture surface texture and shapes). Do I need another lens? If so, what do you recommend?
3) I'm thinking about getting an Olympus FL-36R flash, but they sure are spendy. Worth it over the flash it comes with? I had a halfway decent flash for my Pentax that I could bounce and was invaluable when shooting indoors, but I was usually shooting ISO 100 to 400 so no surprise there.
4) a lot of the pics will end up on various family member's Facebook accounst so I bought an eye-fi mobi to transfer the pics to my IPad. What's a recommended editor app?
Thanks for your help,
Will
Well, I recently decided I wanted pics like I used to shoot with my old Pentax so I impulse bought an Olympus Pen-E-PL3 kit and an Olympus digital ED 45 f1.8. Here's my questions:
1) Did I screw up with getting a PL3? I'm shooting for my own entertainment and I don't need huge resolution. Easily portable, lots of user settings and vibrant sharp picture quality is the goal.
2) I shoot a lot of macro shots of machine parts (trying to capture surface texture and shapes). Do I need another lens? If so, what do you recommend?
3) I'm thinking about getting an Olympus FL-36R flash, but they sure are spendy. Worth it over the flash it comes with? I had a halfway decent flash for my Pentax that I could bounce and was invaluable when shooting indoors, but I was usually shooting ISO 100 to 400 so no surprise there.
4) a lot of the pics will end up on various family member's Facebook accounst so I bought an eye-fi mobi to transfer the pics to my IPad. What's a recommended editor app?
Thanks for your help,
Will