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From: KRIS GARREN <KGARREN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 11:41:22 -0400
Doris,

I LOVE your information!  You are a virtual encyclopedia
of camera's<g>!  The lenses that I use are not Zuiko, they
are very hard to find around here.  I've been using Kalimar and
Tokina.  How do these off brands compare to a Zuiko?

I also have a Canon Rebel but can't seem to get the same
kind of great shots as I get with the Olympus, any thoughts?

Photography can get pretty expensive, you seem to have
allot of experience with that issue!  Any other "tricks" about
how to get the equipment/film/ect. at the best price possible?

What has been your favorite 35mm so far (can I ask that on
an Olympus mailing list<g>)?  Why did you get rid of the
Canon's?

Sorry if it sounds like I am picking your brain, I just NEVER get
to talk to any serious "shutterbugs" where I live!  That's probably because
I'm new to this obsession!  I got started because I ran across an Olympus
OM-10 at my house one day.  I asked my husband about it and he said that
it had only been used a couple times.  He said it didn't work.  Well yes,
it won't
work if you have it set to the "manual adapter" setting but NO manual
adapter
installed on the camera<g>!  I got some more lenses for it and have been 
going crazy ever since.  I never had an interest in photography before
then.
The OM-10 was of course in mint condition when I found it, he had kept it
stored
pretty good.

Thanks,

Kris
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****

 < Actually, money  seems to do the trick. I was a little flip in my
answer to the question of why several systems. I started with N*k*n
because I loved the lenses, and the stuff really is sturdy. The C*n*n
detour (I've sold most of it off, save for two bodies and 3 lenses)
because I lucked into a 300/6.3 Fluorite, and had no bodies to use it on.
 The OMs I bought because of their petite size and weight, as well as the
images I kept seeing that were made with Zuikos, and it was the
lenses that came to endear me to the system. It's not just the SLRs,
either. As many list members know, I love the XAs, and believe them, gram
for gram, to be one of the best image-making machines ever made. Even my
OM Stylus, which I consider far inferior to the XAs, has survived hundreds
of mountain bike rides dangling from my neck (a few falls) and many canoe
trips. 
  I believe each photographer should match the hardware and software
(film, papers, developers, etc) to one's vision and usage.
This is a subjective and totally personal decision, and can only be
arrived at after a photographer has come to know themselves through
experience. In 35mm I also owned Konica, Pentax, Minolta, Yashica (No
Contax yet!) etc. I did this very cheaply, when I realized that college
students at a nearby university would sell their cameras after taking
the first Photo class. I placed (free) ads on the bulletin boards around
campus stating that I would buy cameras and lenses for cash. Later, I
would sell the stuff through Shutterbug or the local paper, sometimes back
to another student. >

                                    *= Doris Fang =*







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