{"id":341,"date":"2019-05-24T19:26:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T02:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrischiesa.com\/wp\/?p=341"},"modified":"2019-05-24T19:26:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T02:26:08","slug":"new-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrischiesa.com\/wp\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"New Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the hopes I&#8217;ll be using my blog more, I purchased a new camera.\u00a0 The old point and shoot I had was a Canon ELPH 310 HS.\u00a0 Not a bad camera by any means, it had the same resolution as my camera and being that I&#8217;ve been One Bagging my travels, it wasn&#8217;t worth carrying around.\u00a0 Added weight and stuff is currently the bane of my existence when traveling.<\/p>\n<p>*drumroll please*<\/p>\n<p>I purchased an Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark III with the included 14-42mm EZ lens.\u00a0 I did a little shooting with it today as I walked around the neighborhood (to see what it&#8217;s capable of before I take it overseas).<\/p>\n<p>I settled on this camera\/lens pairing because it&#8217;s a mirrorless camera with a pancake style lens that is tiny.\u00a0 There is also the LC-37C lens cap that automatically opens and closes as I power on\/off the camera (and almost turns it into a point and click camera).\u00a0 Sadly the local camera shop didn&#8217;t have it in stock, so I had to order the cap off Amazon \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 Olympus is currently running a $200 off bonus on this camera, so it was very cheap for what you get ($600 for the camera, lens, bag, and a cheap SD card).<\/p>\n<p>Other accessories I purchased were a 2nd battery, a 2nd SD card, a cheap clear lens filter, a polarizing filter, a camera strap and a USB battery charger.\u00a0 This should be enough to get me started taking pictures when I&#8217;m traveling overseas!<\/p>\n<p>My initial impressions were very positive.\u00a0 I shot a few pictures just to verify it was working correctly and get some experience with the camera before I need to start snapping pictures of things I&#8217;ve traveled so far to see!\u00a0 Also needed to see if my workflow with my laptop is working well (it is).\u00a0 Also going to learn darktable which is a lightroom style program only open source (and thus free).<\/p>\n<p>The road ahead looks verdant, twisty, and I have no idea where it&#8217;ll lead but it looks interesting!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chrischiesa.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/P5240037_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-344\" src=\"http:\/\/chrischiesa.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/P5240037_01.jpg\" alt=\"Showing the Path Ahead\" width=\"4640\" height=\"2715\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chrischiesa.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/P5240037_01.jpg 4640w, http:\/\/chrischiesa.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/P5240037_01-300x176.jpg 300w, http:\/\/chrischiesa.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/P5240037_01-768x449.jpg 768w, http:\/\/chrischiesa.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/P5240037_01-1024x599.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4640px) 100vw, 4640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully there&#8217;s going to be more pictures and posts here to keep everyone updated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-341\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/chrischiesa.com\/wp\/?p=341&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/chrischiesa.com\/wp\/?p=341&amp;share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span>Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-341\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/chrischiesa.com\/wp\/?p=341&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-341\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/chrischiesa.com\/wp\/?p=341&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the hopes I&#8217;ll be using my blog more, I purchased a new camera.\u00a0 The old point and shoot I had was a Canon ELPH 310 HS.\u00a0 Not a bad camera by any means, it had the same resolution as&hellip; 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