{"id":4511,"date":"2011-10-17T06:48:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T13:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=4511"},"modified":"2011-10-17T06:48:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T13:48:22","slug":"olympus-mju-iii-150-its-never-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=4511","title":{"rendered":"Olympus mju III 150, it’s never too late."},"content":{"rendered":"

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As the Canon Classic and the Pentax 24EW <\/a>(pronounced 2-4-EEEEEeeeewwwww) fought it out to be the supreme irrelevant the Olympus mju III was waiting for it’s moment. In a move reminiscent of Doc Brown it has\u00a0vualted forward from 2003 and staked it’s claim to be the\u00a0preeminent irrelevant camera from around the turn of the last century.\u00a0 It’s 37.5-150mm (really 1\/2 a mm wider you coun’t have rounded?) lens is something to behold.\u00a0 That’s 150mm in a Point and shoot!\u00a0 I’m not aware of any PS film cameras that had a longer lens.<\/p>\n

So why wouldn’t it just win hands down, it’s lens is the longest?\u00a0 The reason is that it lacks much of the control that the Pentax and Canon have such as exposure compensation and that neat feature of automatic zoom for portraits.\u00a0 Features like that really help when your trying to be the best of the abandoned.\u00a0 And the Olympus is champagne coloured, please that is so 2000.\u00a0 The Canon and the Pentax are a “real”<\/strong> camera colour silver, which isn’t really a colour because it’s just a reflection…..\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>So how did it\u00a0perform?\u00a0 It took some getting used to because it seemed to want to use the flash all the time every time.\u00a0 This was annoying and required me to poke at teeny little buttons until the flash symbol was off every time I turned the camera on (camera on-flash off-camera off-flash on-camera on-flash off)\u00a0 I think you get the idea.\u00a0 The one feature it has and luckily is useful is the spot metering.<\/p>\n\n\t\t