“Peaches.” Shot with the Panasonic GH-1.
What’s it like to hold the camera in your hand, fiddle with the controls, look through the viewfinder, and shoot with it? To me, that’s the most important thing with a camera. Is it fun to pick up and use? Elsewhere on the Internet you can find lots of opinions on the relative image quality of different cameras. In contrast, I don’t stress over a camera’s image quality. With a few exceptions, the image quality of all modern digital SLRs are great. If I actually press the shutter at the right time and I don’t get a good photo, it’s not the camera’s fault. It means I had poor composition, or poor lighting, or just a bad idea of what I wanted to accomplish. The only thing I’ll blame on a camera is if there’s something that keeps me from pressing the shutter at the right time. Bad autofocus? Too hard to get the controls right in time? Was the camera too bulky to bring with me in the first place?
From a writing perspective, I like what Lawrence Ripsher’s done with his multi-part camera reviews (see his review of the Panasonic LX-3 and the Olympus EP-1). I’m going to try to emulate him.
The Amateur Photographer 