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DeMorcan | all galleries >> Galleries >> Most Popular Photos > B-300.jpg
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25-MAY-2004

B-300.jpg

In 2000 and 2001, I was looking for a digital camera. After owning a few, I ended up with an Olympus C-2100 UZ. At that time most convertors for digicams came from the videocam world and were pretty bad. Olympus had a line of convertors for their 35mm camera and they were very good. They put an adapter ring from 49mm to 55mm with them and sold them for the C-2100. I saw them on Canon IS cameras, many Nikon Cool Pixes, etc. At that time there was more tendency to include filter rings on digicams and adapters were plentiful. The 2 image stabilized 380 or 370 lens cameras made the most use of them though. In fact they were so good, when they quit being made, I bought a a number of them and later sold them to pay for my hobby. Now they are back and sold as TCON-1.7X and are still just as good and still useful on Oly's 35mm cameras, although sold for digicams. Another technology from back in the 2000 was the slave flash for digicams. It is less visible in this photo. But I used it to eliminate the shadows rather than to make the on camera flash reach further. Now of course, serious photographers use dSLRs. The ZLRs are for beginners who have no interest in convertors, etc. Only an iconoclast like me remembers and uses teleconvertors for more magnification and macro convertors for shallower depth of field. :) The A1 is still CA free with the convertors so I am using them again.

Olympus C-2100UZ
1/40s f/8.0 iso100 full exif

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Guest 26-May-2004 02:19
Thanks for the info - I went and got myself a close-up filter for my A1. I'll see where it takes me!
Karen Leaf26-May-2004 01:39
Good history lesson! The slave for my little Nikon cost more than the 50mm 1.8 and another half of the 55-200mm I have now. Go figure. It's sitting in some bix somewhere. I always wanted the Uzi.
snootydog26-May-2004 00:56
oh and by the way, I liked my B-300 but I never thought I got as good results with it as other folks did when I used it on my fuji 6900.
snootydog26-May-2004 00:55
I think Jeanne may be on to something. And for the record I was fairly well impressed by your high heeled shot!
DeMorcan26-May-2004 00:27
Naw, if the hose and high heels did not do it, they aren't going to be impressed. LOL
Guest 25-May-2004 23:53
Hmmmm. Are you trying to impress the ladies???