List of articles

New articles are added here four times a year, about three months after the original publication in the Quest. The most recent ones are listed at the top.

• What Next from Olympus Now? — my predictions and expectations for 2008; the article may be especially interesting from a perspective of a year or two (March, 2008)
• Digital Infrared; waiting for a B&W, IR camera — my long-standing obsession with this application, this time from the angle if IR-dedicated cameras (December, 2007)
• Leica M8: an instant Classic and what we can learn from it — how this camera may affect the development of digital technology (June, 2007)
• Straight Photography Versus Image Manipulation — where are the limits, if any, and why the foggy borderline cannot be avoided (March, 2007)
• Don't Blame Your Camera! — ten most common complaints you may hear from your family and friends. Usually, however, it is not the camera, but the photographer... (December, 2006)
• Going Black and White — a number of good reasons to convert some of your images to monochrome (September, 2006)
• In Quest for a Digital Darkroom Application — why I am not happy with any photo postprocessing program I've tried (June, 2006)
• It's All Done With Mirrors — my reflections on the revolutionary, dual viewing system in the Olympus E-330 SLR (March, 2006)
• Olympus E-500: A Digital SLR for the Rest of Us — a brief review, in addition to the detailed one elsewhere on this site (December, 2005)
• Cameras: the Next Ten Years — ramblings on what may happen in the near future (September, 2005)
• Using Legacy Lenses on a Digital SLR — another approach to the subject discussed elsewhere at my site (June, 2005)
• The Joys of Non-SLR Photography — areas where non-SLR digital cameras not only compete successfully against SLRs, but beat them hands-down (March, 2005)
• Digital Camera Recommendations — a follow-up to the previous article, with a number of recommended models briefly discussed (December, 2004)
• Choosing a Digital Camera (Educated Layman's Guide) — the title is clear, and the article should stay up-to-date for the next few years (September, 2004)
• The Film is Dead, and I'm not going to mourn it — a discussion of pros and cons of jumping on the digital bandwagon, aimed mostly at hardcore film users (June, 2004)

Why Quest?

The first time you found yourself in my photography section, it was most probably through a search engine. In particular, Google seems to like these pages — maybe because they are hand-coded (without all the redundant fluff generated by HTML-authoring applications), maybe because they do not contain the ballast of advertising.

This also may be the reason why so may people seeking information on non-digital Olympus cameras get here; I'm receiving quite a lot of emails regarding those (the OM and Pen series, even XA). Wrong place: I'm not an expert on film-based Olympus cameras!

The Olympus Circle

I happen to know some experts, though. The UK-based Olympus Circle consists of dedicated Olympus users and collectors from all over the world.

They also publish a quarterly newsletter, the Quest, delightful to read and nicely printed. Information on how to join the Olympus Circle can be found here.

Printed vs. Web version

My articles are posted here only after the next issue has been sent to the subscribers, in order not to distract the readership from the printed version. The latter is usually translated from my Polish-American, heavily-accented English into the British version of the language by the kind and patient Quest editor, John Foster. On the other hand, the Web version is published as originally submitted, warts and all, but it may be updated and otherwise improved.