Tomoko,
The Olympus Pen-FT is one of the cameras that I am bringing to the
great and, to be, much fabled Mid-Atlantic Oly Fest this afternoon. I
am
also bringing adapters so the FT can use Olympus OM lens and N*k*n lens
also.
Rand E.
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>Tomoko Yamamoto wrote:
>
> At 05:59 PM 1/10/98 +0900, Mr. Maekawa wrote:
> >For those who read Japanese, there is a small article from Nikkei-BP in;
> >http://biztech.nikkeibp.co.jp/biztech/biz.cgi/general/bs980108051.html
> >(in Japanese only)
> >According to this article, old cameras manufactured in 1940-1970's are
> >getting popular among young people who are around 20 years old in Japan.
> >Especially there are many youth interested in olympus Pen-F recently.
> >
> I just read last night in fj.rec.photo that someone went home to trade his
> Nikon FE10 for his father's Canon P(?). He was saying that at the time his
> father bought his Canon, he had to pay the equivalent of
> four times his monthly salary. (That sounds rather high, and I wonder how
> his father managed to live for four months, but his father might have been
> living with his parents)
>
> I did not understand why the young man wanted the old camera so much. Now
> I know he was part of a trend in Japan.
>
> Tomoko Yamamoto
> Photographer, Composer, Soprano
> mailto:tomokoy@xxxxxxxxx
> http://www.charm.net/~tomokoy/
> -All the photos (except panorama) with OM's-
> http://ep.com/ep/csp.html?csp=1130
> -Olympus Equipment Classifieds-
>
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