Everything You Want To Know About the Olympus e620 Weblog

Behind the lens at the E620 Weblog

Howdy! The Olympus e620 Weblog is devoted to exploring the rich realm of opportunities uncorked by this clever little gadget Olympus turned loose on the world in March, 2009. It’s been called “the only DSLR you’ll ever need,” and maybe that’s true. We’ll find out!

I built the site as a kind of online notebook to document and share what I learn about the e620 — how to use it’s features, get the best out of it, make great photos with it, and push it’s capabilities to the limit. If you love making photographs as much as I do, I hope you’ll find the stuff here helpful and well worth reading.

Thanks for dropping by! I’m really glad you’re here. And if you learn something interesting or enjoy yourself while you’re here, tell a friend about us.

Share Your Thoughts, Too

If you find something on the site that’s helpful or interesting; if you have an opinion about something in an article; or if you just want to know more about using the e620 or the goodies that go with it, please leave a comment or question on the blog.

And don’t be shy! I really want to hear from you, especially if you have a different point of view.

Everything You Need To Know about PhotoBob

Photo who?

PhotoBob (the guy behind the lens and keyboard) is me: Bob Franklin, a former broadcaster and retired freelance copywriter who’s been shooting photos since 1958.

My first “very own” camera was a Kodak Brownie — a plastic box with a single-aperture fixed lens — capable of 12 shots on 120 film. Or maybe it was 220 film… fifty-plus years is too long to remember anything clearly.

Sometime in the early 60’s I got serious and found a way to buy a 35mm Kodak rangefinder. Then in ’66 I got really serious and bought a Minolta SRT-101 plus a bunch of lenses I could use to make real photographs. Still have it (and them), too. Later I added a Nikon F, a collection of Nikkor lenses and speedlights, then a Nikon F3 and finally a Nikon N60 (as a casual, walkaround camera that my kids could play with, too).

“Leave Your Mother’s Kodak Alone!”

The Brownie was a birthday gift calculated to convince me I should leave my mother’s fold-up-bellows camera alone. I did. And I didn’t. It was fun to compare the pix I took with each one.

I remember it drove my parents and siblings nuts when I turned our family room’s three-by-five-foot closet into a darkroom. It was a serious processing place complete with black-painted masking tape around the door and room-temperature running water (I did the running). And was it ever hot workin’ in there after ten minutes with the door shut.

Now we have computers to do all that stuff for us. And I can’t say I miss the measuring and mixing one little bit. Probably wouldn’t miss the post-processing with computer much, either.

Okay, you’ve read this far and, unless you’ve had a similar experience, I’ve bored you silly. So enough about “About.” Now go enjoy the site!

And as they say on the Island,

Namaste!