And we are back to the E-PL1 and the mZD 14-150 lens. I think most of my images in the last two years have been taken with this combination. It just screams to be taken on walking or trekking trips. And that is exactly what I do. I can hand the combination in one hand all day long.

Another image from this little camera. I really have a love hate relationship with it. Sometimes it gets the image totally wrong in processing and at other times, like this one, it's simply amazing. I normally use aperture mode with all my cameras 99% of the time. I was using the tilt and swivel screen here with the camera stabalized on a table in front of me. These screens do come in useful at times like these but I must admit I don't use it as often as I should.

This image shows the quality you get using this combination. The lens is great anyway but here I used the E-PL1 and I think the quality is simply astounding. Just a reminder, this lens gives you a magnification of 1:2 out of the box. You have to use the adapter for it to get a 1:1 magnification. Personally I haven't missed it and tend to use the lens as is.

Another image using the NX10 with the NX 55-200 lens. I must admit I haven't used this camera much, not because it's a bad camera, but because there are better cameras out there. I mean better in the sense it's much more fun using them than the NX10. I believe Samsung are now in the process of developing a new camera with a better sensor.

I don't think I've loaded many images from this camera in the past, maybe one or two but it can't be much more than that. It is not a bad camera but it isn't a camera that makes you go wow either. Focusing isn't really that fast, but not slow either. Seems accurate though and the images are not bad at all. This image was takem with the NX 55-200 lens. Not really expensive, a little large for my liking, but it does produce some ok images.

Just look at these coulours. Im my opinion this is the best DSLR that Olympus ever produced. Just like the *D was the best camera that Pentax produced. I'm not saying that the following models were rubbish, I just think they didn't rival the first DSLRs that wre brough onto the market by both companies. I'll have to dig out some images from the Pentax *D, just to show how good it really is (because I'm still using mine today with the amazing Pentax pancake lenses).

Just thinking about this focal length zooms brings to mind the PL 14-150 lens for Four Thirds cameras. It seems that these lenses have been more successful on these formats than on any other. The image above was made on the first camera that Olympus brought out, namely the E-1. It's a 5MP camera but the files are really great. This lens also performs wonderfully on it (as well as on the Panasonic L1).

I would just like to continue this series on the mZD 14-150 as the images really impress me as I look back through my archives.

I think this is an anazing image to get from this combination. It's images like this that has driven me away from the DSLR cameras which are heavy and cumbersome. The lenses for them are also heavy and pretty expensive if trying to get the best quality out of them. I know that some CSC lenses aren't cheap but this lens is worth every penny. When you also look at what the E-PL1 can produce (at the time of writing this it costs you around €200 on ebay or by Olympus as a refurbished unit) why carry a huge DSLR around with you for miles.