{"id":3936,"date":"2010-11-04T18:18:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T08:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=3936"},"modified":"2010-11-04T18:29:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T08:29:05","slug":"europe-holiday-rome-ii-my-trusty-backup-camera-the-olympus-e510-with-50mm-macro-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=3936","title":{"rendered":"Europe holiday Rome II &#8211; my trusty backup camera &#8211; the Olympus E510 with 50mm macro lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the far majority of my travel photos on this trip were taken with a Panasonic GH-1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?page_id=1510\">Micro Four Thirds<\/a> camera, I did take my trusty Olympus E510 dSLR which was my main camera I used on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/JAlbumAll\/Europe\/Italy2007\/index.htm\">my Italy trip in 2007<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of the E-510 with the superb Olympus ZD 50mm f\/2.0 macro lens is one I have always loved for travel, and I had to get it out for a few shots such as these gems from the crowded Spanish Steps in Rome all within a minute, as my wife was lacking patience in this very crowded area:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Europe\/Italy2010\/PA110207.jpg\" alt=\"A fashionable mum coming up the rear?\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s shallow depth of field allows one to isolate your subject very well whilst still retaining the context, here I have selected the first tourist to focus upon rather than the fashionable mother at the rear:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Europe\/Italy2010\/PA110208.jpg\" alt=\"Blonde tourist\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And, finally, the smoking Roman Centurion:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Europe\/Italy2010\/PA110210.jpg\" alt=\"Roman centurion\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As much as I have loved my Olympus E-510, it is now almost 4 years old, and technology has marched on. Although image quality is still excellent at low ISO, and it does have built-in image stabilisation, the optical viewfinder is no match for the EVF on my Panasonic GH-1, and it lacks the native 16:9 aspect ratio which I find is perfect for travel photography.<\/p>\n<p>If I had the money, I would replace the E-510 with the new Olympus E-5 (much better viewfinder and weather-proofed), and replace my GH-1 with the new GH-2 (much better video and AF), but alas, no such luck there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the far majority of my travel photos on this trip were taken with a Panasonic GH-1 Micro Four Thirds camera, I did take my trusty Olympus E510 dSLR which was my main camera I used on my Italy trip in 2007. The combination of the E-510 with the superb Olympus ZD 50mm f\/2.0 macro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[31,198,196,14,197,156,40],"class_list":["post-3936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-photography","tag-e510","tag-europe","tag-italy","tag-olympus","tag-rome","tag-travel","tag-zd-50mm-macro"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}