Intro
Photography has been one of my favorite hobbies since my
school days and since I didn’t have any discrete digital camera at that time,
my main camera were my parents phones, my mother’s sleek and cute Nokia 6300
and my father’s chunky Nokia N73. I couldn’t do much with the 6300 but the N73
was a stellar performer with its 3.2MP camera with Carl Zeiss Optics, yeah..!!!
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| N73, September 2008 |
Nokia N73 was just amazing in the hands of my 16 year old
self. It had an AF system with different modes with Macro being my favorite, a flash
and most importantly the ‘Carl Zeiss’ branded lens, which I had no idea about
in the beginning but later discovered the Zeiss brand and hence began my
favorite thing in the camera module. With the Macro mode I got some good
blurred background with, then sharp images from its sensor. Only god knows the
number of photos I took with that camera, well, mobile.
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| N73, March 2008 |
That was when my sister, who again was a good frame maker
herself decided to buy a camera for herself. She told me to find a good camera
for her and her only condition was no complications with changing lenses and
stuffs but a good camera that could shoot anything and everything. I started to
research and thanks to Graham from YouTube, we planned to take the Panasonic
Lumix FZ-200, and boy that was and still is one hell of a camera. My sister was
hesitant to buy a camera made by Panasonic.
In Indian, this brand is mainly knows for TV’s, AC’s and other similar
household electronics. After my research and before buying, I asked some of my
friends who were photographers and they all were like, take the Canon ‘this’ or
the Nikon ‘that’ and most of them had no idea that Panasonic made camera’s in
the first place. But then the moment I started to post pictures in social
media, my friends were all awed. Many asked me about the gear I used and
stuffs. I learned everything I could from using that camera and also from the
wonderful videos made by Mr.Graham Houghton. The Lumix FZ-200 had manual controls
and I learned everything I could from it.
While researching about the FZ-200 I got a glimpse of the micro four thirds system with the Olympus OM-D E-M5 ad video, and it caught my attention big time. And I started to follow the development of this system and was impressed with what these small camera's could do. That was in November 2012. Almost an year later, I thought I would test the E-M5 but I could find a store that
had one. I went to some camera stores and they were simply unaware of this
system and one guy even said Olympus doesn’t make cameras anymore. I smiled and
said Okay..!
It’s natural
because in India, we can only see Canon’s and Nikon’s and sometimes a rare
Sony. Many doesn’t even know what the Micro four
thirds system is. After some heavy research, I found a store that had one, which unfortunately was in another state. I went there and tested the OM-D E-M5 Mark-1 in the store and I understood that this was the camera I wanted, I waited for. I fell in love with the design, feel and the sheer pleasure of using that camera. And that was the day when I made my mind.
And almost 3 years after that first impression, in June 2015 I decided to buy an OM-D for myself. So I started my search to
find an authorized seller to get the OM-D E-M5 Mark 2 and finally ended up buying from the
all India distributor in the capital city, New Delhi.
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| My Baby. Taken with Lumix FZ-200 |
It has been a love story ever since.
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