.........and welcome to the Half Frame Mind blog site. My name is Rob Chan, and I am a self-proclaimed Four Thirds system practitioner from Malaysia (some of you may have taken a cue from the name of the site itself, which is a pseudo-nickname for the Olympus Four Thirds sensor, but that's not entirely the case).
A short background about myself. I have been seriously practicing photography since 2008 with many an Olympus camera, but I technically started off by using a Canon Powershot A410 way back in 2005. I bought in just for the sake of having a camera to use during vacations. Quite a strange little camera that was (it ate through2 AA batteries like no tomorrow, and was noisier than the insides of a pepper mill even at ISO100), but what would you want from something that sat way at the bottom of the Canon compact range? A couple of years after I graduated from university and started working, I was caught in a dilemma of continuing my journey with either the established Canon Powershot S5, or a quirky looking prosumer camera from a company that I never really cared about back then: the Olympus SP570 UZ. I took the plunge with the latter, and needless to say, the rest is a rather odd history.
I kick started my interest in photography with the frankly amazing SP570 UZ (well, it would have been far better if it didn't force us to use that atrocious abomination that is the XD card!!!), and 4 months later, graduated to the newly launched Olympus E-520 DSLR that was released in middle of 2008. I had to, sadly, sell off the 570 to make funds for it, but it was something that I had to do to realize my love for photography. Along the way, I picked up a legend off eBay: the very 1st DSLR made by Olympus, the E-1. It may be hard for some to imagine going from 10MP and then to half of that (a 5MP Kodak CCD) and at the same time, omitting creature comforts like Image Stabilization, Live View and a large and bright screen. But what I lost in terms of features, I gained in unmatched ergonomics and image quality. I'll get onto more of that later.
In the minds of some of you reading this, I can probably hear this: why on God's green Earth, did I forgo more mainstream (cue: safer) options like Canon and Nikon, for a rather bizarre an often ostracized manufacturer that did so many things that defied convention? Well, I shall explain more in detail in my next post. But for now, thank you for visiting my blog. I hope that it will somehow serve as a proper avenue of conveying and sharing my thoughts of photography, and at the same time, offer some form of knowledge through the less-than-amateurish material I post here within the coming days.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Rob Chan and it's been a great pleasure. Thank you and goodnight!
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