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Re: [OM] Olympus straps (was: OMitis and OM service in Australia)

Subject: Re: [OM] Olympus straps (was: OMitis and OM service in Australia)
From: John Hermanson <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:23:06 -0400
The earliest straps were brown leather.

John
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Richard Schaetzl wrote:

> Dan Lau wrote:
> >
> > Anyone else
> > have a genuine Olympus leatherette strap?  Also, most of my straps are
> > black, except for one which seemed to be very dark brown, anyone know how
> > many different straps were made by Olympus?  Anyone care besides myself? :-)
>
> I haven´t heard of a OM strap, made of leather. my oldest Books show
> only the dark brown nylon plastic strap with the extra shoulder pad.
> An Olympus Pen FT manual of 1966 shows an strap similar to this, so maybe
> there has been never a leather OM strap, but this list teached me of the
> existence of the very unusual"snakeskin" OMs, so the theoretical
> posibility exist.
> Later Olympus introduced with the OM-4 and OM-2SP the black nylon woven
> straps with blue Olympus writen on it an anti slid pad sewed on it.
> I like this most, it´s small, flexible and don´t crys in bright yellow
> and red "steal me".
>
> Richard
>
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