After reading your message, welcome to your heaven
Foxy
> 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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