A day with camera :)

So yesterday (yes it’s 2am again) was a day used for the camera, sure sure, have had code open all day, and misc. meetings which in one (I got to use the camera!) I shot about 450 photos, some were dupes to get a little “live action” and “movement” but also for the sake of changing lighting conditions and ongoing elements in the background (aka folks working out at the gym).

So what did I take shots of? Well was very excited and ran to the lake for starters - I enjoy it a lot, but sadly it was a tad foggy and overcast this morning so I really didn’t get to take as many great shots, but such is the game of winter weather, plus I really need to get some filters for these lenses as it’d of been great to have a UV on this badboy.

But none the less, some great shots - as the day progressed though, I found what I have dreaded in my A510 and X20, green dots. The dreaded “pixels of death!” well I searched ol Google (the mighty search engine that could!) and found a rather interesting post on Steve’s (one of my favorite review sites) which more or less had a E-500 user (like myself) who was having the same worry, dead pixels (or as other google’d sites noted “hot pixels”) - but there was hope from the note, a term I remember reading in the manual “Pixel Mapping” apparently all digital cameras have dead spots - but in the factory before they ship they get those spots mapped, thus they don’t show up in photos - but I did the full gambit of suggestions that Olympus support gave him, finishing of course with the Pixel Mapping, well there are still a few litle pixels, but they aren’t bright, white, pixels of death, but the 2 troublesom green dots on my photos are now gone when I snapped a few shots - so needless to say pretty impressed and happy - the manual when re-reading that section suggests it be done once a year, but as a few noted on other sites when I search maybe every 2-3 months (just to keep it well aligned).

Overall though, very impressed with the camera’s performance, speed, design, and layout - a nice upgrade from my 3.2mp A510 - the next test probably after tomorrow is to do the photo print test @ Target, great thing about Flickr you can upload your pics, then order prints - so needless to say looking forward to printing out something fun.

Going to upload a few choice shots from the Gym photo shoot today, that was a riot!

In other non-camera news, talked with my brother briefly tonight, he got his new laptop from work (his old work one died) but on top of that looks like in maybe 2 weeks or so I may be going out to Grover for a few days to work with him on mail servers and networking junk as they setup a primary mail server up in SLO and have my office here as a fall-back - so time shall tell how that all pans out - but as for me, I need food (I know I know, its 2am) but none the less im hungry Night Folks.