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Re: [OM] Was Digital vs Film, is now Fawlty Towers and OM addiction.

Subject: Re: [OM] Was Digital vs Film, is now Fawlty Towers and OM addiction.
From: PCACala@xxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:16:32 EDT
Hi George:

> I like your 3 bodies, each with very different film.  

Oh, there are more OM-1n 's, each with a film I don't use as my standard
(which as everyone knows is Agfachrome RSX 50).  At any given time I'll have
one with Velvia or Astia or Sensia II, one with Ektar 25, as well as one with
T-Max 100.  Susie typically carries EK200 for use with her slow Canon
telephotos.

>  I almost never use color negative, except for people shots.

That's standard in the P&S or ZLR, which gets used daily for people shots.

>  I notice you've got nothing longer than 100.  Is that a decision based
>  on your way of seeing? just curious.

See my previous posting.  Yup, it is apparently ingrained as the result of
almost 30 years of photography in which I seldom had anything longer than 100
mm.  I had a 200 mm f/4 Zuiko for the last decade, but it seldom got used.
Just too heavy.  I'll see if things are any different now with a lighter 200
mm f/5 and with practice looking for the long view.  However, I did live for
two years across a canyon from a seasonal waterfall.  It needed a LONG lens to
really capture its beauty, which wasn't photographable from its base.  I
finally shot it early this summer with a Canon 300 mm f/5.6 (with and without
a Canon 2XA teleconverter).  The camera apparently got set aside and I just
saw the results yesterday.  Bingo, I see the possibilities!  I'm always
wanting to get too close.

Gary Reese
Las Vegas, NV

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