Joining the Ranks: My New E-420

[Rob Harrison-3]

Well I just entered the digital age (DSLR age, that is), quite by  
accident.

I flew from Seattle to Cleveland yesterday with my five-year-old son,  
and in the ensuing chaos, left my buttpack with my trusty Fuji F31fd  
on the plane. :-( So what else could I do, but buy a E-420 at the  
nearest big box store? I can't miss the moments of the first "solo"  
trip with my boy! Couldn't find the 25/2.8 kit, so I got the 14-42  
lens...and so may actually be paying the 15% restocking fee when we  
get back to Seattle. We'll see. Before the trip I'd almost worked  
myself up to getting an E-3 and 12-60, but had decided I really needed  
to sell my Leica MP and lenses before shelling out that kind of cash.  
When it came down to it, the E-420 seemed like a good and reasonable  
way to test the waters, and the small size and light weight appeals to  
me in exactly the same way the OM-1 appealed to me in 1976.

More later....

Rob in Seattle (in Mentor, OH)

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[Charlie Geilfuss]

        Congratulations Rob, I don't think you will be disappointed. Sorry
about the loss of your trusted Fuji.

Charlie (back on List from home)

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Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 11:42 PM
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Subject: [OM] Joining the Ranks: My New E-420


Well I just entered the digital age (DSLR age, that is), quite by  
accident.

I flew from Seattle to Cleveland yesterday with my five-year-old son,  
and in the ensuing chaos, left my buttpack with my trusty Fuji F31fd  
on the plane. :-( So what else could I do, but buy a E-420 at the  
nearest big box store? I can't miss the moments of the first "solo"  
trip with my boy! Couldn't find the 25/2.8 kit, so I got the 14-42  
lens...and so may actually be paying the 15% restocking fee when we  
get back to Seattle. We'll see. Before the trip I'd almost worked  
myself up to getting an E-3 and 12-60, but had decided I really needed  
to sell my Leica MP and lenses before shelling out that kind of cash.  
When it came down to it, the E-420 seemed like a good and reasonable  
way to test the waters, and the small size and light weight appeals to  
me in exactly the same way the OM-1 appealed to me in 1976.

More later....

Rob in Seattle (in Mentor, OH)

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