Hi, and thanks to those of you who helped me figure out how to do this. My
background is in
Leica, going back to the middle '50's. As a teenager I took travel pictures
w/Kodachrome
25. Later, I became deeply involved in B&W print making--so involved that I
got really
burned out. I sold my three Summicrons (awful mistake) and didn't touch a
camera for
several years. When I did, it was vacation photography again, in color, with a
Nikon 8008
and two zooms. Now I'm retired, shooting Velvia, w/Nikon, a zoom and three
primes, but
really have the itch to get back to B&W. The house we build later this year
will have a
darkroom. I would love to have equipment lighter than the Nikon and with
top-flight
optics. I love to tramp around in the woods, but have a tendancy to haul
everything I own.
I still have two Leica M bodies but can't afford the lenses. I've always heard
that Zuiko
lenses were excellent and that Olympus bodies are light, precision made, and
tough. So I'm
thinking about buying Olympus before the Nikon system gets out of hand and I
can't afford to
start over. Sorry for all the detail, but I want you to know where I'm coming
from. I
would be perfectly happy with a manual camera since that's what I learned on.
I still have
a one degree spot meter as I shot with a truncated version of the Zone System.
I would also
love the averaging spots in the OM-4T. So I'd welcome any advice/personal
stories about Oly
equipment. I've studied the features of the different OM's and, at the moment,
nothing
jumps out as the model I _must_ have. So I'm entirely open to suggestions and
would be
grateful for them. I'm in the Atlanta area and have used KEH for years, so I
have a trusted
source of used equipment, although their inventory of Olys is low at the
moment. Thanks in
advance for any tidbits you'd like to pass along.
John Pendley
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