It is also a cheap insurance policy. Who is going to steal a 20+ year old
banged up camera and try to pawn it. Of course I'm not saying to
intentionally beat up your camera body. :-0 Lenses, on the other hand can
be misaligned by banging on the front and I'm not sure about the back, but a
little brassing there doesn't hurt.
Gregg
> Mike,
>
> I believe we think alike. I'm actually selling a lot of my nice equipment
> and keeping the well worn, as long as they work and the lenses are
optically
> sound. I don't care about cosmetics, I care about the pictures.
>
> Tom
>
> > I recently added another OM2S body to my bag-o-tricks that came from
> > eBay. It looks _really bad_ (major brassing, prism cover caved in in one
> > corner, you get the drift...). This thing (as the seller stated it
> > would) flat works. Perfectly. In fact it works every bit as well as my
> > other 2S which I have had since new (and did all my own brassing and
> > abuse from shooting motorsports with it for the past 15+ years).
> >
> > I tend to really like the OM2S, my only fear is lack of repairability if
> > the circuit fails. Nothing wrong with ugly when they still work well
> > IMO. Call it a well worn in tool for the job.
> >
> > Mike Veglia
> > Motor Sport Visions Photography
> > http://www.motorsportvisions.com
> >
>
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