It had been 8 years or so, but I went out with my old Olympus E-300 just to spend time with an old photographic friend. Originally released in 2004 (I got a refurbished one in 2006), it’s a pretty basic DSLR – no live view, no in-camera art filters, no in-body image stabilization. But was my trusted photographic companion for around 5 years.

I threw on an old Panasonic-Leica lens featuring an early implementation of image stabilization, which had been gathering dust along with the E-300, and headed over to the old downtown area of town with mostly overcast skies. Like a dummy I neglected to check all the camera settings before heading out, and only realized after getting home that it was set for ISO 400, which is relatively noisy compared to more modern models. (I should have set it to Auto ISO to leverage lower ISO settings when the brightness of the composition would allow for it). But Darktable did a pretty good job of minimizing the noise, to the extent that it won’t be an issue for prints up to 8×10 (and possibly 11×14).

I’m in the process of resurrecting my old renderinglight.com site, and this was the first album I threw up onto the gallery page…