A flourish with the PEN

Yes, I could have carried the DSLR with me and yes, my Olympus PEN E-PL1 isn’t the smallest because it is fitted with a legacy alien Tamron Adaptall II 28mm f/2.8 lens. In fact the glass in this lens is quite small diameter but for some reason the non optical material increases barrel diameter by double or more.
Still there I was overlooking the valley at East Keilor after finishing work with Pierre. I had shot this several times, early morning too, with my Kodak P880. I wanted to see how I would go with the PEN.
A friendly man of European origin stepped out of his car and had a chat with me – he felt the grass was unkempt but was impressed when I was showing darkened sunset silhouettes rather than normal shots of grass.

Living with an Android

I had the Olympus PEN E-PL1 (painful suffix that, have to press a bunch of keys to PL1 – there, did it again) but not on me (so to speak). Knox City is a mecca for the middle class raising-a-family and teens-wanna-have-fun-and-grow-up crowd, yet No Photography rules all over the Ozone.

But I had the Samsung Galaxy S in my pocket when I encountered this gorgeous Red Vespa. Unfortunately on the way in, the 8%$@ phone was frozen again, doing some data sync and presumably consuming 100% CPU – darn poor Process Priority “Give” and unpredictable app startups. Went into Teds, Harvey Norman’s, had a KFC (yes, I knoooow!), bought some nice big chestnuts and a $19 pair of Logitech 2.1 computer speakers (they’re cheap but no Creative mid-range sweetness at all).

Anyway, second chance, the Vespa had not moved, so put down the Logitech box, chestnuts, fired up the Vignette Android App (paid version). Just love the Red.

Isn’t this just like, cool?

And just one more

Figuring out the Olympus PEN E-PL1

The E-PL1 is quite a sophisticated camera once you switch it off iAuto (even iAuto allows more control than some other cameras). To map all those functions onto just four buttons and no dials is quite an achievement but I kept getting confused just reading the manual. This flow chart hopefully captures the logic and context.

in reference to: http://myolympuspen.wikispaces.com/UsingLiveViewAndAdjustingShootingParameters (view on Google Sidewiki)