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Digital Camera (SLR) recommendations
I am starting to really hate electronics. First, laptop keyboard/ethernet problems, now after I bought an 8.0 MP OLYMPUS EVOLT E-500 with 14-45 mm & 40-150 mm lens, and its been a nightmare. I was an idiot for selling my old but near mint 5.0 MP Kodak E-340 digital camera, because that camera actually took better pictures (see my website http://www.magnetonium.com/main_photography.html). Kodak's limitations were limited zoom and no open-shutter for nights.
I lost the whole weekend reading the Olympus manual, trying to get the bloody thing to work, macro (close-up) mode was outrageously horribly blurry, no matter how much I tried manual and automatic focus. ISO options in the darker rooms gave me blue, orange, yellow, white objects instead of the normal color images. I got stressed out, and even school doesnt stress me out and I am in tough program. I don't know what to do, seems like restocking fees are going to piss me off at the store. The camera cost me in total $1120 dollars, including 3 year warranty. I packed the baby up and ready to return it tomorrow but I dont know what to trade it for.
I really really need your help, because not only I now sold my previously good Kodak camera, expecting this Olympus junk to be great ...
I need a digital camera that has a good zoom, high pixels and open-shutter option for working it at night. Please post your recommendations, or maybe you can even suggest how the bloody Olympus works without a workout? Many thanks in advance ...
It just seems like to me these SLR cameras are too bloody demanding ... it takes so much time to get it all going that by the time you are ready the deer you wanted to take a picture of is gone. At the same time, I dont like automatic focus much because in certain conditions the camera is not accurate at zooming (I am talking about the cheap ones)
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