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Re: [OM] OM2 tale of woe.... :(

Subject: Re: [OM] OM2 tale of woe.... :(
From: Joel Wilcox <jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 20:02:36 -0500
At 09:08 PM 9/1/1998 -0700, you wrote:
>On 1 Sep 98, at 21:53, Joel Wilcox wrote:
>> Yours is a true tale of woe, but there may be a happy ending. It's going to
>> depend more on how you look at it though. Would a minty OM2 be worth
>> $360AU, which is what you'd have in it after repair and, I assume, CLA.
>> Quite possibly.  If you got good use from such a camera for 10 years or
>> perhaps much more, would it ease the pain of a risk that didn't quite pay
>> off?  Very probably.
>> 
>> If you buy something you can eventually use and you use it for a long
>> enough time, eventually it doesn't owe you anything anymore.
>> 
>This is a very good way of looking at things, and I agree with the 
>sentiment. But what happens when keep something so long, *you* 
>start to owe *it*? ;-) I'm getting to that point with my car, and even 
>my OM-10... :-)
>
>
>Shawn & Janis Wright

Shawn,

I think that when that happens, you are truly a fortunate man. (I'm a VW
guy too -- '85 Jetta GL ...  Then there's the '74 BMW 2002 ...  Sigh)

Joel

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