For months now I’ve been avidly coveting the Canon EOS Rebel T1i 15.1
And then I saw this:
The Olympus PEN E-P1. I know it’s the looks of this one that got me, I’m trying to say it’s the features & the size & the lens possibilities & the Live MOS sensors & a Micro Four-Thirds format for cryin’ out loud, but, let’s face it, love at first sight is way shallower than that.
I want to go everywhere & whip this thing out. I want people to see me whipping it out, and they will see, because the would notice, because it is so not one of those you-have-to-read-the-numbers-to-tell-which-it-is ones. No, no it is not. And oh, oh, I want.
I don’t know, it’s a cool camera but if you’re just buying a camera as a status symbol and are going to drop almost a grand a low-end point-and-shoot Leica will attract as much attention, and the Leica name and little red dot is an attention-getter forever just based on the reputation, whereas the Pen might be changed/unrecognizable within a couple years, not to mention that if the 4/3 format flops it’s just a footnote.
I agree it’s a cool looking camera, but $800 bucks or whatever it costs is a lot of cash for an impulse buy based on emotion, especially since your getting into DSLR price range, and all the lens options that come with a DSLR make the DSLR much more of a camera.
I know it’s a film camera, but if you like looking at neat-looking cameras have you ever seen the Blackbird Fly? It’s really retro-oddball.
oh, i think that was totally serious, i was pretty tipsy. luckily i never shop tipsy! oh wait.
anyway, i am pretty sure i’m back to being focused on getting the T1i. the PEN does take all sorts of lenses, but, the T1i is just more camera.
also, i like to blog about *stuff* because i have one of those amazon affiliate things, and if for some reason someone were to buy something i linked to (or anything else from amazon after following one of my links), they give me 4% or something. so far no one’s bought anything i linked to, but they did buy a couple other random things after following a link. so far i’ve raked in almost two bucks!