Olympus Was Beautiful After All - 29th Sep and 14th Oct 2012
Cosmos at Showa Memorial Park, Captured with the E-5 While organizing some old photographs recently, I came across a series of cosmos images I had taken at Showa Kinen Park on October 14, 2012. The camera was an Olympus E-5 paired with the ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 50-200mm F2.8-3.5 SWD II. Looking back now, the E-5 would become Olympus's final DSLR. These photographs are now fourteen years old. Since then, I have spent much of my time shooting with Nikon cameras, and it has been quite a while since I parted with my Olympus equipment. Yet when I looked at these images again, I found myself thinking, "Olympus really was a wonderful camera system." The soft pink tones of the cosmos flowers appear natural and delicate, yet they leave a strong impression. The images are not flashy or overly dramatic. Instead, they seem to capture the gentle texture of the petals and even the atmosphere surrounding the flowers. Back then, the Four Thirds system was often criticized when compared with ...