Not to worry. "In a few decades...", asssuming I am still alive, (a) I will
be too old to be taking photographs, and (b) digital photography or its
successor technology will have rendered film based photography obsolete. I
would not chose today among the OM cameras based on which ones will work 20,
30 or 40 years from now.
Query: who takes pictures with all of those meterless cameras, including the
venerable Leicas?
----Original Message Follows----
From: jowilcox <jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: oly <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [OM] OM gear with longest life expectancy (was: OM-3Ti)
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:49:44 -0500
>===== Original Message From Frank van Lindert <franklin@xxxxxxxxxx> =====
>All cameras with LCD's in them will get useless in a few decades or
>less, so the OM-4 will no longer do its work then. The OM-3(T), rather
>than the OM-4(T), will still do its main task with a separate meter
>when the display has worn out.
>The OM-1(N) and 2(N) are probably even a better investment seen from
>the life expectancy point of view: mechanical meters have a very long
>life.
What causes an LCD to become useless? If one had two OM-4Ts of equal age
and
used one and stored the other (this is hypothetical!), would the LCDs or
both
be done for at the same time, or do they in fact wear out from use?
Being dependent on an OM-1 or -2 wouldn't be the end of the world, but it
sure
wouldn't be my first choice.
Joel Wilcox
Iowa City, Iowa USA
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