Try looking for IBIS - might make a difference.....
In Body Image Stabilization (I think...)

In a way I was spoiled when it came to taking photos and having them developed: I had a professional photographer living in the house with me: my Dad!
A camera was always available although my brothers and I sometimes had to take turns.
Depending on how busy Dad was, it might take a few weeks before he developed and printed my films, but then it got done - without further cost to me.
My very first "own" camera was an Agfa Silette (if memory serves me right), bought right after I came to Canada in 1966. Wow! Now I had to not only buy my films, but pay for developing and printing as well....
Some years after that, on my brother's advice, I bought an Olympus camera, don't recall what model it was, but sure liked it. Have stayed with Olympus ever since.

I have the EM1 Mk3 and really like it. I did treat myself to a new lens with it, but am also using the lenses I already had for the OM-D.

I found the learning curve for the Mk3 a bit steep. I printed out the manual on 8.5x11 paper, inserted some blank pages between the chapters to make my own notes.
If I want to know something I see on the camera, the manual is my go-to, or if I want to know how to do something, ditto. Making plenty of notes in the manual on the blank pages and in the margins.
I don't think I'll ever get to know/understand everything about this camera, but so far I've been able to make it do everything I wanted.
Would I buy the same camera again? You betcha I would!

Just want to wish you happy holiday in Vienna! Every time I hear/read that name it brings back very good memories. My Dad's foster-sister lived there and I spent a few very pleasant vacations with her and her family.
This is already some 50 years ago, but still vivid in my memory.
Hope you can climb stairs, climbing up the tower of the Stephan's Church is certainly worthwhile.
One warning: as I was walking through the city, camera strap around my neck, I was approached by a young person offering to take my photo with my camera. I declined each time and would not take the camera off my neck.
When I told my aunt about this after it happened the first time, she told me, they are only out to get your camera so they can sell it and get a bit of money for it.
Esther

I think I mentioned this before, but when I got my OMD Mk3 I was quite overwhelmed with all I can do with it.
What I did (and still do), is think about something I would like to do with the camera, look it up in the user's guide, and try to figure it out.
Or I flip through the user's guide till I see someting that looks interesting and try to work it out, camera in hand.
Always with pen or pencil on hand so I can add my own notes to the user's guide. For that purpose I printed the guide with extra large margins, as well as added a number of blank pages, before punching the holes and runing a spiral through them.
Sure, 8 1/2 x 11 inches and 320 pages is a hefty size, and because of that I keep the manual provided by the company in my camera bag, it is much smaller.

We've travelled the Rocky Mountaineer and loved every minute of it.
I'm not sure that a tripod will be of much use: the train moves and the rails are not always nice and smooth!!!
I don't know if they are still doing this, but at that time, if the train approached something worthwhile taking photos of, it was announced on the PA and the train would slow down.

Recommended some time ago, right here on UHH was Piriform Recuva.
Free to download/use
I've used it a number of times and works great.

[quote=dicspics]I have done weddings, if you have to ask these questions don't even start, you will not believe what's going to happen when you start the shoot, nobody will cooperate with the posing and the guys will be drinking that haven't drank before. Plus everyone with there cell p[hone will be in your way. If you don't have at least two people that know what there doing with the posing you won't have a chance.. I could go on, but don't say I didn't warn you..

P.S. and when you show the pics to the bride a couple weeks later she says she doesn't like them and won't pay the rest on the money she owes... Hope you have better luck..[/quote]

A written (and signed) contract will help with that!
As to all the guests taking photos with cell-phones or camera's, make it clear beforehand to the the couple hiring you, that you will make some time available for the guests to take photo's but if anyone starts taking photos outside of that period of time, you're gone without refund of their money. (Make sure that's in the contract, too!)

Except, like I said, I have the V700.
It's working fine for me, I have no problem waiting a few seconds, so I'll just stick with what I have.
BTW, This V700 was not cheap: I remember hiding the sales receipt when I got home with it, so my husband wouldn't make nasty remarks about my spending.... :-)

I really don't know. I have never used any Mac or Apple equipment. But a quick search on the 'net should tell you...

Mine is the Epson V700, but equally happy with it. I have digitized hundreds of photos with it and am happy with all of them!

Digitizing photos and negatives, especially if you have many of them, is a slow process: place the image on the glass plate, close the scanner, press the button, and wait......
I suggest you have a book or magazine handy to read while you wait, or what I will often do: have some knitting or crochet project handy. Just not one with a pattern that needs lots of attention :-)
Esther

It is totally necessary to have a second person with you! The one and only wedding I ever photographed was my son's stepdaughter's. The setting: one of the local parks.
Aunt of the bride saw I was having problems getting people to listen to me and she jumped right in.
No "sweetie, will you please stand there and smile ..."
It was more like: "You! over there, in front of the tall guy. And hold your child's hand so he won't run away!"
Beside me getting a super set of photos for the bride and groom, the guests listened to this woman, started to call her "Mrs. Boss" and had a lot of fun with it!
If I ever "do" a wedding again (not likely), I will try to convince this woman to come and help me again!

Not colourful?
Did you have a good look to see how many different colours and shades of colours there are on this little bird?

I've had my laptop too long now to remember all the details, but:
It is an HP brand, 17 inch screen.
From my memory, it is at least as fast as my desktop was.
It does have a dedicated number pad.
It has three USB connectors, plus two more that look different but I don't know what they're for.
Where my desktop monitor could only stand straight up, the laptop monitor is adjustable to make it very comfortable for my back, neck and eyes to watch it.
If/when it gives up, I will promptly replace it with another, similar one.

My own use for a tripod is to take photos of the grandkids.... with the remote cable also attached to the camera.
As soon as the kids see me put the camera to my face, they start mis-behaving, pulling faces, etc.
With the camera on a tripod and pointed at their playing area (e.g. trampoline) and the remote control in my, they don't realize I can still take photos, but their fooling around has stopped and I get photos with their "natural" faces!