Welcome, Douglas;
It's good to know someone who is (or may be) making serious money using
Olys.
George
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Cooper <visigoth@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, July 19, 1999 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] 24mm "sliver" [was Re: Denatured Alcohol and Mirrors]
>
>Now that you guys have been so helpful, I thought I should introduce
>myself. I'm mostly a writer -- novelist and travel writer -- but I've
>done my own travel photography for the past decade. Recently the
>photographic side of my career has become more serious: I've been signed
>by the Bruce Coleman stock agency here in Manhattan, and Photo District
>News will be doing a feature about my travel work in the September issue.
>I'm hoping to make photography pay the rent, so I can concentrate on
>writing obscure novels that sell only six copies each.
>
>My work appears primarily in New York Magazine -- I've done virtually all
>of their travel writing and photography for the last four years -- but I
>just published my first photo in the New York Times (taken with the Zuiko
>24/2.8, on an Olympus OM4T!), and finished writing a piece for Conde Nast
>Traveler, which will appear in the September issue (with none of my own
>photos, alas).
>
>As for my Olympus affiliation: the OM-1 was my first camera, back when it
>was Consumer Reports' top-rated beast. I've been through a number of
>different makes since, and recently have done most of my work with a
>Rolleiflex TLR from the fifties and a Konica Hexar. I picked up the OM4T
>because I missed having a wide-angle, and I've fallen back in love with
>the OM system: I now have the 50/3.5, the 200/4; and the 100/2.8 is on
>order. Sold my N*k*n.
>
>Good to be here. You guys are seriously helpful.
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>
>Douglas Cooper
>
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