Toronto Photography Meetup Group

What: Four-Thirds / Micro Four-Thirds (Olympus, Panasonic) meet
When: Sunday, December 12, 2010
Time: 12PM
Where: Bull & Firkin Pub, 1835 Yonge St, Toronto (Yonge & Merton, near Davisville subway station)

If anyone has a venue they would like to suggest instead, that's handy to transit and more accessible, it would certainly be considered.

If I may ask, what do you do at these meets?

Share experiences with the gear. Get an opportunity to try a piece of equipment (lens, body, TC) that you might other wise not get to try, because they just aren't available in-store. That sort of thing.

Only one person has ever lost their life ... but we don't talk about that

Well, to be fair, he found it again. It rolled under the pool table.

We also have a 4/3rds hotdog eating contest. This is where the hotdog is bigger than the bun, being 4/3rds the size of the 3/3rds bun.

There was the time I singed my eyebrows at the Oly-B-Q. Luckily Rob was there to catch it with the world's fastest auto-focus of the E-3 & 12-60 SWD combo.

You guys are such cards. I'm interested in m43 (don't have any m43 gear at all), but not sure if I can make it... Be forewarned if I come I might ask to play with your toys

That's the whole idea. I don't think there's a single person, in the group, who used to hog the Dinky Cars in the sandbox as a kid

A few of us have m43 stuff now anyway, plus the regular 4/3 lenses might be of interest to any of the m43 people, if only to see if they are a viable option.

double post

A colleague of mine is trying to decide between the Panasonic micro 4/3s and the Olympus. If he hasn't purchased one before the 12th, he may join us.

The more, the merrier!

Absolutely! We might even get a couple of stragglers from DPReview.

My wife Photowalker will now be joining the meetup as an Olympus owner,
yeh.

The location has been locked in now. From previous experience I knew that it was pointless to confirm earlier than about 2 weeks before the event.

I entered the below previously posted photo into the free-subway-newspaper, Metro Photo Challenge (everyday travel category) and was shocked to learn that it made the top ten in Canada out of 4,500 entries.
I don't expect to ever get this deep into such a large competition ever again, so I figured it would be okay for me to boast a little to my fellow 4/3rds users. Best I've been able to do before was 31st in a DP Review challenge of 200 entries.
See you guys on the 12th

Andrew
http://www.metrophotochallenge.com/ca/gallery/vote

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajcgn/4576272723/" title="The Middle by ajcgn, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3384/4576272723_308c825e13.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="The Middle"></a>

This wider angle version shows that it wasn't quite as dangerous as it looked.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajcgn/4579291137/" title="Made it by ajcgn, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4015/4579291137_7dc71eeff9_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Made it"></a>

Nice shot and use of crop

Best I've done on DPReview is a 10th, in a competition that had less than 200 entries. I don't enter contests. My stuff tends to have a pretty narrow focus.

At this point there's a pretty goof chance that there will be both a E-5 and a 150mm F2.0 4/3 lens at the meet.

I'm afraid I have to change my status...I've been fighting a bad cold which just won't give up. I've already had to give up a couple once a year events, and becoming more like Scrooge every day this cold persists.

As much as I'd like to join you, I better skip this one. As the heading says, "Why me?"

Bah, humbug...and see you next year!

Sorry to hear that Mike.

Just a reminder for Sunday

Does anyone who is coming have the Olympus 4/3 14-54 2.8-? II that they could bring. I would like to try it on my E-PL1 with the Panasonic 4/3 adapter.

Looks like I won't be able to make it, we have dinner plans that evening. Maybe next time

I've got the 14-54mm F2.8-3.5 and I'll have it with me.

Sorry to hear that barronchung.

Thank you

Rats, won't be able to make it out due to work. Hope you guys can have some fun.

Attendance has become iffy, a snow storm is in the forecast, and it could get nasty on the 400. I will have a look at the radar at 10:30 tomorrow and make a decision. Wish they hadn't made me turn in my keys to the room with the weather dials when I retired from Environment Canada.

Haven't us people north of Highway 7 had enough of this?