James J H Rooney

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• June 30, 2006, on Olympus E1 Review:

  I have done photography for over 40 years. I had 2 Nikkormat bodies, an 85-1.8, 35-2.0, 24-2.8, Vivitar 70-210 Series 1 Macro and a 150-3.5 Kilfit. I used to do a lot of B&W darkroom work but haven't done any latelly. I have a Dimage Elite 5400-II scanner and a Dual II which I use to scan all my old negs and slides. I refused to go digital until I could get at least a 28mm equiv lens at a reasonable price. I used a Dimage 7 until it died. I did a lot of research before replacing it with the E-500 in Feb of 06. I wanted to use my old glass. I found out something interesting. If you have almost any SLR except a Canon, you can get an adapter to use your old glass!!! I use all of my lenses and I have kept my two Nikkormats for those times when I use film. I load one with B&W and one with ColorNeg of Slide film. I found that the E-500 had very low noise and do almost all of my shooting in RAW+JPEG. If I want to shoot action, I cheat, set it to manual and use a SanDisk III card and...