No More Early Adoptions (E-30)

By "early adoption" I mean the purchasing of a tech product—in my case, cameras—just upon the release of said product.

I have to admit, I was an early adopter of the Olympus E-510 digital SLR. At the time I was getting increasingly aggravated with the Sony R1, and the Olympus promised much of what I was looking for. That was in 2007. Then, this year, I acquired the highly praised 12-60 Olympus zoom lens.

Now, in the "olden times"—that is to say, the Twentieth Century, or maybe even the middle part of the Twentieth Century—cameras were, ahem, built to last. Oh but no more! Now, as the saying goes, a camera is "a computer with a lens attached."

Must. Stop.

This could easily degenerate into a stereotypical geezer rant.

The point is this: Olympus is now introducing a new camera, the E-30, positioned between my little E-510 and the much heavier and professional E-3.

Oooo . . . looks really cool, doesn’t it?

Photo: Olympus E-30 (Olympus Corporation)