At 12:31 PM 4/5/2000 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 4/5/00 11:42:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>Skewes@xxxxxxxxxxxx queried:
><< My 17 year old daughter is taking for the first time
> photography classes in High School and needs a 35 mm SLR camera.
> I would like to by her an Olympus body. I thought of
> an OM 10 or an OM 2000. Since I don't know much about
> these cameras I need some advice. Are these OK for learning?
> Can the zuiko lenses, used for OM1 and OM2, be used with the OM10 or
> OM2000? >>
Susan wrote:
>
>Alex,
>Welcome to the group! We are fanatical, but fun-loving!
>
>Had you considered goiing ahead and finding her a good, used OM-1?? Why not
>start her on a camera she'll want to keep all her life? I started my son on
>my original OM-1 MD and will have a terrible time getting it back as he has
>really done well with it. I'm not crazy about the plastic chassis of the
>OM-10, and the 2000 is not the compact format of the original OM system.
Actually the OM2000 is not less compact than the original OM system
cameras, at least not much less compact. They actually weigh less as well
because of the space-age plastic (cough) used in just about everything but
the chassis.
I don't necessarily disagree with Susan's advice. Both the OM-1 and OM2000
are good choices for learning photography. I like and use both cameras.
Joel Wilcox
Iowa City, Iowa USA
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