RE: SLR camera choices - I've used an Olympus IS-2 for the last few years. Its lens zooms from 35-135 mm, it accepts filters (important to me - especially a polarizing filter for on-water work, and where there's a lot of snow), it has a great macro feature and a 1:1 macro lens which can be purchased for it, also a very adequate tele-extender which takes it out to 270 mm (rarely needed). It has superb automatic exposure but easy manual over-ride, and of course it automatically reads the film's DIN number and adjusts the camera's exposure meter accordingly. The flash is adequate for most medium-distance work. It's a strangely shaped camera, and it isn't compact as some others. But its image quality is superb - so good that I rarely use my Nikon now. Olympus also makes an IS-3 which goes out to 200 (or more?) mm, but I haven't used that. It's bulkier. It is not water-resistant or "weather-proof", and I wish it were. As far as I'm concerned, that and its relative bulk are its two disadvantages. The one problem I've had with this camera is universal to all cameras: when I want to use it in cold weather, I have to keep it inside my jacket, or the batteries won't work. And by the way, (as with all cameras) I always keep a spare battery tucked in the LowePro hip pack in which I carry the camera. - Bill Hansen *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Jan 31 1999 - 05:28:16 PST
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