Ok … its not actually very new… I bought this Olympus EPL-1 about 1.5 months ago.

I’ve always wanted a small camera system that has the flexibility of a DSLR system and the profile of a point and shoot. This camera kinda meets in the middle. Its slightly larger than a point and shoot, and less powerful than a DSLR, but hey, you can’t have the best of both worlds.

Here’s how is sizes up against my working camera.

Ian’s photos in the below post are taken with this =)

Its been my wish to get hold of a small micro four-thirds camera since last year. The main draw was the considerably smaller size as opposed to a full DSLR system, but yet retaining most of the DSLR features. The significant advantage it has over the traditional point and shoot camera is the sensor size, and the interchangable lenses.

I still remember my last trip with my wife to taiwan, where I’ll lug my working camera taking wonderful photos in the morning, and end up dragging my feet with it squeezing through the packed streets of the night markets shopping. My back still hurts thinking about it. Hence, my wish for a more compact camera.

To all my friends out there who consistantly ask me which camera to buy, this would be my pick if you don’t want to invest in a DSLR.

Note to myself: post my taiwan photos

So anyway last week, I got a call from geraldine who needed some help with shooting some products, so after thinking about it, I agreed to help her. It took me a couple of days to think of what I wanted, and how to achieve it, and I’ve never seen the product until that day…

And it was kinda embarrasing to run out of battery power when trying to get the last shot *blush*. I just simply forgot to pack in the batteries.
ok … enough shameless plugging/harping. Here’s the some of the shots.

Important: DO NOT COPY/USE THESE PHOTOS WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION.

The colours shifted slightly after I saved it for the web (for faster loading). I can see a couple of things (technically) I would have changed to correct some of the image details. But i guess I’m not quite a product photographer to pick out these details during the shoot, only when I started doing the cleaning up of the images.

Oh well, at least it was quite a learning experience.