My first digital SLR was an Olympus E1. That was a beautiful camera. Fairly small and light, incredibly durable. It was old already when I got it, but the completely weathersealed system and amazing lenses lured me in. And it let me get shots like this. I couldn’t do this with my 5D. This is from a 10 hour hike through rain, drizzle, and clouds in the cloud forests of Dominica. There was an inch of water in the bottom of my camera bag. Everything was completely soaked. But I could trust this camera to just keep going.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My first digital SLR was an Olympus E1. That was a beautiful camera. Fairly small and light, incredibly durable. It was old already when I got it, but the completely weathersealed system and amazing lenses lured me in. And it let me get shots like this. I couldn’t do this with my 5D. This is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,41,87,3,728],"tags":[1347,1339,1336,1340,1332,1345,1333,126,1310,1337,1344,1349,1352,1341,1334,1346,1338,10,1351,302,1335,1342,1350,1343,1348],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forest-2","category-photo-gear","category-photo-of-the-day","category-travel","category-water-2","tag-5d","tag-amazing-lenses","tag-camera-bag","tag-cameras","tag-cameras-and-camcorders","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-forests","tag-clouds","tag-digital-camera","tag-digital-slr","tag-drizzle","tag-electronics","tag-fog","tag-jungle","tag-jungle-swamps","tag-olympus","tag-olympus-e1","tag-photography","tag-precipitation","tag-rain","tag-rain-drizzle","tag-swamps","tag-water-damage","tag-weathersealed","tag-wet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t