On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 08:00:06 -0700 (PDT), Joshua_Putnam <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
jammed all night, and by sunrise was overheard remarking:
> I've been told for years that I'm nuts not to buy a modern AF SLR
> system
Ain't it great to be crazy!
> -- am I even more crazy to do underwater photography with
> manual focus and exposure?
Of course not!
> (Makes me think I should get a cheap,
> disposable OM-10 body if it will work in the housing. If some
> day I see salt water pouring in, I'd rather see it hitting an
> OM-10 than an OM-1 :-)
I saw an OM-10 on e-bay go for around $50 -- the seller mistakenly called
it a CM-10, and apparently, the masses aren't very adventurous. On the
other hand, I immediately check out anything that I haven't seen before.
I probably would have gone for this one (I don't yet have an OM-10, OM-F,
or OM-3 in my vast collection), but then I did my taxes. I'll be lucky to
hang on to my other gear... Whoops!
> Any other people on the list using their precious Olympus gear
> underwater?
I learned to dive only a few years after I got my original OM-1 as a
teenager. I used to drool over all the underwater cases, but back then,
it wasn't even an option, and my Dad could borrow the Nikonos from the
SCUBA club at his work. In fact, had I or my Dad had more money, I
probably would have bough the [huge] Canon A-1 at the time, simply
because it had the sportsfinder with meter (the A-1 used a beamsplitter
in the body, OM-4 style, so you could change finders without losing the
meter like you did in the Nikons) and that was prime for diving. Much
like I would have bought the Porsche 944 rather than driving my Dad's old
Toyota, years later.
> Any advice for a new underwater photographer, other
> than obvious things like replacing all the O-rings on a used case
> so it doesn't flood the first time I use it?
I eventually went to college in Pittsburgh, stopped diving, and even
after moving back to Jersey, and the occasional trip to the Bahamas, I
haven't but once rented a case for the Olympus (well, let's just say that
the last time I had the proper combination of cash and time, it wasn't
difficult to rent an OM enclosure in the Bahamas).
I nearly got back into it (but decided to buy a new house instead) when a
good friend of mine (and my former publisher) won an AT&T "travel
anywhere" contest, decided Australia was the destination (like there
could be any other), and then spent a fortune learning to dive, buying
his own gear, and belittling my prior experience (oh, only "YMCA"
certification), and then even buying an SLR with housing, which he
managed to write off by publishing a CD full of Great Barrier Reef photos
when he got back. Argh! Then he proceeded to go out of business, move to
Hawaii, next door to a former professional surfer, just so I could ever
mention learning to surf in Jersey when I was a kid again.
But hey, I have my own forest....
--
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