and may be for some time. I got married, sort of am now retired as we had to move because of my wife's career, so am seeing if I am still a competent photographer. I picked up an interesting compact digital camera over the weekend, an Olympus c-2 also known as a D-230. It has spot metering, can turn off the flash, and has a fixed focus equivalent of a 35mm f2.8 lens, and since I am so used to my beloved leicas, I shunned more expensive zooms that wouldn't give me the ambient results I like. This is a good camera. It's tame and unresponsive compared to the M6's but the instant preview and editing facilities are worth their weight in gold. Image resoultion is 2 million pixels, which is enough for snapshots and printing small images and on one occasion good enough to do a crop for web publication. I've put this weekends test shots on the web at http://bouncing.org/gallery/ all images have been sized down for display on the web, all have been dodges and burnt in photoshop. They are just excersizes really, but feel free to have a look. nod.
