I’ve recently invested in the Olympus E520 dslr and yesterday took it out for it’s first shoot. We shot an industrial wasteland area in Besos, Barcelona. There are so many places in Barcelona that are fantastic for shooting, but we wanted to avoid the typical tourist routes or modernist buildings and opted instead for industrial bleakness (not a Barcelona staple).
The results were pretty smart: I shot mostly with the 28mm wide-angle lens and the depth and colour results were fantastic. The Olympus e520 is a 10mp digital SLR, upgraded from the old 510 which was awarded Best Digital SLR 2007-2008 by EISA (European Imaging and Sound Association). We shot in RAW and developed the images later, and although the idea was to shoot in high-contrast monotone b/w to bring out the industrial bleakness, some of the shots looked so great in full colour that I had to keep a couple of these in the collection.
The point of this article was basically to sing the praises of a great camera and to encourage anyone who was considering this camera not to think twice, the body has all the options and the lenses are of excellent quality.
