Wow, I didn’t realize that its been so long since I last wrote a blog post! I haven’t been doing much with photography, as I sold my camera last year. It had been sitting around and I had no interest in taking it out to photograph anything.

Having gone several months without a camera, to see how that would be, I’ve gone ahead and adopted a whole new camera system. I purchased a new OM System (formerly Olympus) OM-1 Mark II MFT or Micro Four-Thirds format camera. The camera uses a crop sensor that turns lenses into an effect 2X focal length due to the cropping; in other words, a 12-40mm lens would equate to a 24-80mm lens. This is huge for photographing wildlife, as because of the factor, the lenses are able to be made smaller, and less weighty. Also, a great wildlife lens like the 150-600mm lens is now effectively 1200mm, a mighty reach. Add to that a teleconverter and you’re at a whopping 2400mm!

My plans are to focus on wildlife, landscape and architecture shoots. I am hoping to get a good zoom lens for this spring’s Biggest Week in American Birding festival, held on western Lake Erie in May.

This is a short update for now, but there will be more in the future and especially once I get back into the groove again.