Brooklyn Bob

This is my new toy. It’s an Olympus SP570 Ultra Zoom with a 35 mm lens equivalency of 26-520mm. It’s the best camera I’ve ever owned for street photography.

My last camera with a long range lens is a Nikon N-70 film camera with a 300mm telephoto. It is a truck compared to this one. All my photography for the past several years has been with a Canon PowerShot point and shoot with limited range. 

What a trip this camera is. I carry it everywhere using the wrist strap from my Canon instead of the more typical neck strap that came with the camera. It is very unobtrusive compared to a DSLR with telephoto zoom. It’s doubtful that I’ll ever go back to an SLR. 

I’ve got a ton of pix to upload to Flickr. What a time consuming job that is. Check out this set of 3 pix of the Queen Mary 2 leaving the harbor. They were shot in the early evening at long range through the haze.

Lots more to come! 

See if you can keep up with this guy. Good luck!