Need a new camera? Just a quickie: it’s looking like I’ll be heading to eBay with the last camera I bought, the Olympus Evolt-330. I missed the return window at Adorama, alas. It’s just not the right thing for me: way too much camera for this gal, and it looks like I may have managed to find a demo box of my old (sadly discontinued) camera I can buy, which means even if the one I have can’t be fixed, I’ll have what I love to use again, in perfect working order. If I get really lucky and my current one can be fixed, I’ll have two, so I can hang on to these for as long as possible, since I just can’t find anything else I like as much.
Before I do that, I figured I should check in with readers, since y’all are so good to me, and I know some of you shoot.
Here’s the kit I have, with the two lenses, for your info. Here’s the dpreview page on it. It’s literally only a month old, has no wear, and everything it came in the box with is here.
I’m okay with taking a loss on this if a reader wants to buy it from me, so I’ll toss an offer out to any of you for $750 plus what it costs me to ship it. I can also toss in a wireless remote for it: it didn’t come with one, but I have extras from when I used a different Olympus, and they work with the Evolt. Email me in the next week if this is of interest.
(One word? Given, I have very small hands and a disability in the one I hold the camera with, but if you’re another tiny-handed person, this likely will not work for you. One the other hand if, like me, you’re someone with a profound astigmatism who is all bummed out that you can’t have an SLR because a viewfinder doesn’t work for you, the live-view screen takes care of that.)
March 12th, 2007 at 12:26 am
Dammit! Small hands can’t handle it? That camera is (was?) tied with the Nikon D70 for our next camera and I was really leaning toward the E330 because of the monitor (not because of my astigmatism, but because we are used to being able to get crazy angles and it really helps me taking pictures of a tall person to be able to hold the camera above my head and still frame the photo properly, and also lay it on the floor, and and and . . . ).
If you aren’t able to sell it in the next couple of months bug me and maybe we’ll have the money then to take it off your tiny hands . . . at least Tucker will be able to use it.