is that with one lens or two, a friend just bought one. with two lenses for $499plus tax.if you can get it around the same price go for, it just as good as all the other stuff they have, the only way you will is spend more money. im thinking of one for my self. but all the other 4 /3 that cost $600 or more you might just well get a d5100 or d3200 d3100 you will get a better picture.

If you want to get into the mirrorless market, I highly recommend the m4/3 or sony nex format. you can alway get adaptors to fit your nikon lenses.

I have an Olympus EMP2 with a 45mm f1/8 lens and find myself grabbing that camera for daily candid shots of my kids, vs my pro body E5 w/12-60. The EPM2 is a fraction of the weight and a blast to shoot, especially with the touchscreen.

I'm considering right now selling off the E-5 and most of my lenses to switch solely to that format. The OMD EM5 is a spectacular camera, and the Lecia 25mm f1.4, Olympus 75mm 1.8, and 12mm f2 would suit my shooting style perfectly.

Leave the J1 to Ashton to shoot.

I'm a Nikon D7000 owner too but have to say I think they missed the mark on their mirrorless models... I don't think I've read a single favorable review on any of the models to date. They chose to use a smaller image sensor than the common 4/3 type and subsequently it falls short when compared to pretty much any of its competitors...

Then again, for $300... that's a pretty good price... If it was closer to $500 then it would have to compete with the Sony models with the same size sensor as your D7000.

I'll be interested to see what other have to say.

You Want Change In The Federal Government ? ? ?

It's a shame that most of us don't understand how our Federal Government is supposed to work.

There are three equal branches. The operative word is 'equal.' As such when things go right they all get part of the credit and when things go wrong we the people blame only one part of the government.

In addition to the three branches there are also two additional branches.

The Three Main Equal Branches of The Federal Government

The reason why the country's forefathers created three branches (parts) of government was to avoid we the people from being ruled by a dictatorship, king or queen. Unfortunately we the people are guilty of creating kings and queens. How do we do this? First a little lesson in Civics.

The main three equal branches of the Federal Government (please note the words “equal” and “main”);
1. Congress - whose two primary purposes are
a. to write just, Constitutional (valid) proposed laws and
b. to fund the implementation of signed laws
There primary purpose is not to enrich themselves especially at the expense of the people. Does this sound familiar?

2. President - who signs or vetoes the proposed laws. If;
a. the President signs the proposed law, bill, then the bill becomes law and the President
1) is tasked with implementing the law providing Congress funds the law. See 1a.
b. the President vetoes the proposed law then the proposed law is returned to Congress
who has three choices;
1) forget about the proposed law
2) override the President’s veto by a certain number of votes
3) rewrite the proposed law and re-submit it to the President. See 2a.

The President has a third choice. The President can veto, sign or ignore the proposed law. If the president chooses to do nothing as in ignoring the proposed law, the proposed law sits on the President’s desk and after a prescribed number of days, the bill, proposed law, automatically becomes law. Then see 2a1). if the law is challenged it becomes subject to the Judiciary.

3. Judiciary or Supreme Court - whose main purposes is to state whether or not a law is
a. Constitutional, hence valid and it is to be implemented (see 2a1) or
b. the proposed law is un-Constitutional, hence not to be implemented. Then the law, goes back to Congress.

Two Additional Equal Branches of The Federal Government

Over the centuries and decades, over 230 years, during the existence of our country there has come to believe by some that there are two additional branches to the Federal Government;

4. We the people whose responsibilities are
a. to elect, our Congressional politicians by voting them
1) in office
2) out of office
3) to continue in office
b. to check on our Congressional politicians
c. to amend the Constitution. You don’t know we can do that?

5. The Free Press (media; newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, etc.) whose main responsibility is to report the facts, news, without biased or opinions. Opinions are to be left to editorials.

In the history of our country, of the 44 Presidents, there has been only one bad President and he was impeached.

SO MY POINT

The point of this prose is that when things go wrong or go not to our likening, it is easy to point our finger at one person, the standing President, rather than look at the whole system. Since the branches are equal, when things go wrong, all are to blame. Let’s fix all. Under President Bush there were things done not to our eventual likening but they would not have been done without the complicities of Congress and the apathy of we the people.

There is a reason why we’ve have a “DO NOTHING CONGRESS.” This current Congress has spent over the last three years making sure that the current “President is a one term President (their words) ,” instead of working for the benefit of we the people, working for the benefit of the country as a whole. AND we the people have been apathetic by failing to exercise all our responsibilities.

We the people have failed in our responsibilities to hold Congress accountable and the media has inflamed things. If you want to blame someone, first blame yourselves.

So how are we the people guilty of creating kings and queens? We don’t vote AND we don’t hold Congress responsible. In other words we don’t exercise ALL our responsibilities. We keep re-electing the same do nothing politicians in effect making them our kings and queens. What do we do? We complain. We don’t act.

So no matter who becomes the 45th President, this country is doomed unless we exercise all our responsibilities. VOTE AND HOLD CONGRESS RESPONSIBLE.

I've not gotten into the rolls of the Congress and the President in waging war and foreign policy. Am just looking at our domestic situation.

By the way;
1. We are not a democracy. We are a republic, supposedly a representative democracy.
2. The concept of democracy doesn’t work well in all cultures. It may not work at all in some cultures. The Middle East is the Middle East; they are who they are. Their cultural does not support the concept of democracy. So let’s keep a strong defense force.
3. Why does Congress have
a. better health benefits than we do?
b. life time pension with health benefits after only working (playing) in Congress for a few years?
c. automatic pay raises?

Why. . .because we the people have failed to exercise all our responsibilities. Congress works for us not we work for them. Maybe it is time for Term Limits? Maybe it is time to restrict their health benefits, pensions and paychecks? Let’s fix all, including us. Maybe it is time for another Constitutional Amendment?


VOTE, EXERCISE ALL OUR RESPONSIBILITIES, AND HOLD
WE THE PEOPLE AND CONGRESS RESPONSIBLE
WHILE REDUCING OUR DEPENDENCY ON FOREIGN OIL

If someone owns the Nikon D90, D7000, and D800, would you be willing to post a few shots? What I'd like to see is a comparison using the exact same shot from each camera. In fact, if possible, I'd like to see the comparison of a portrait shot, landscape, etc.

If you have 2 of the 3, I'd still like to see the comparison shots. My current camera is the D90, but I'm looking to upgrade and will likely buy either the 7000 or 800. I know there are plenty of shots to examine on the internet, but when the photographer and the subject are different, it is like comparing apples and oranges.


Lou Ellen,

Here's a flower picture taken with D7000 and Nikor 18-200 zoom at 200mm. The lens used will make a lot of difference

Fezz

Thanks!
Lou Ellen