I recently browsed through some old pictures my grandma has stored in a shoe box. Everyone kept telling me how much I look like my father in his 20’s, but I couldn’t help but notice the similarities were not only in the obvious consequences of parenthood but also in the clothes and accessories.
I recently bought an Olympus E-PL1 camera, my very first one (at least the first one I chose and payed for entirely), and many factors came into the decision of buying this particular model and brand. I know you must be thinking what does this have to do with the previous paragraph, but please bear with me until the end. First of all, I had good previous experience with the brand, both my father and uncle have Oly DSLR’s and my sister has a compact. They are reliable, have good lenses (we are talking about real photography so forget about megapixels) and give the best for the buck. The competition paled in comparison: Sony (NEX Series) doesn’t know the first thing about lenses and Panasonic (DMC-G Series) built a similar camera with lenses fully compatible. Nikon and Canon didn’t even bother with this sub-market. So look at them both:
