My first SLR was an ego purchase. Rich people around me that had rich people cameras were taking pictures that looked as though they’d been through years of photography school. My trusty Canon point-and-shoot may have been resiliently tolerant of my clumsiness and seemingly genetic predisposition to drop it into the unforgiving hands of concrete sidewalks and half full pint glasses, but it took little more than sharp colorful pictures. I envied my friends to could take those awesome pictures with a subject sharply in focus and everything else artistically blurred out. Turns out that even inexpensive, entry-level dSLR’s and manual point-and-shoots can give you the same effect.

Announced in June of 2009, the Olympus PEN E-P1 Micro-four-thirds camera reinstated a camera line that was resting peacefully in a shallow grave next to floppy disks, Mel Brooks movies, and Kodak 35mm film. The original PEN cameras from Olympus were made from 1959 through the early 1980′s, and were (with one exception) fixed lens [...]

On behalf of the entire DabNab team, welcome!  We started this little outfit because we kept hearing people say, “I want to take awesome pictures! But cameras are expensive and how do I figure out which one to get?”  This leads to a lot of pain and time wasted.  Did you know that most people [...]