You Are Welcome...

Thanks Papa Rotzzi for your true and honest feedback.  It is people like you who really help me grow as a photographer.  Oh and I love what you said above about the nerd in the back of the class room and everybody wants to copy off his paper---Hilarious and so true!

Cheers, Tracy

Hey Papa.

Got out yesterday and tried out my new E-30 camera. The links below will take you directly to them on the Picturesocial Network. If you have time I'd appreciate it if you could take a look and give me your absolute honest opinion of everything about the photos.

  Album:  http://tinyurl.com/7oafovt

  Photo Page:   http://tinyurl.com/1hs

Thanks Papa.

Dewey Barnes

Thank you have a great week.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll definitely look into the Olympus Pen series. I understand that some DSLRs are water resistant with the right type of lens. I hope the Pen are like that but if not, they still could work. I've a lot of wet weather in Utah. When it doesn't snow, we have freezing rain. Plus I love the outdoors. Still, there's cases I can get. I don't know how much better an Olympus Tough 810 is than my current camera for quality. I am going to definitely look into the Pen though. I like what I see so far. Thanks!

Thank you for the encouragement. I appreciate it!

Thank you for the reply. That was kind of my suspicion as well, but when I ordered this lens, I couldn't find any mention of it not working well with the e-510, so I was hoping maybe I was missing something. 

Alright, since you offered help with Olympus products....

I just got an Olympus Zuiko 12-60mm f/2.8-4.0 Lens. I was expecting it to be faster and better in low light (and by low light I mean the standard indoor incandescent lighting in my house) than my 18-180 f/3.5-6.3 Lens. But this lens seems to be worse in low light. I am having to bump up the ISO to 1600- which on my camera  (E-510) shows a lot of noise, and slow down the shutter speed to below acceptable (in my opinion) or use flash. I've upgraded all the firmware on my camera, and I can't think of anything I could possibly be doing wrong. I read a lot of great reviews on this lens, the pictures are sharp and the focus incredibly fast, but I can't help but be a little disappointed. Do you think I'm doing something wrong?