I'm new to the list. So I'll mostly lurk for a few months before you start
really voicing an opinion.
I bought my first OM in 1985. It was an OM PC, which I still have, and I
mounted a Vivitar 28-210 zoom lens on it. Back in those days, my friends
and I were messing around with a couple of newspapers and I did a few
assignments for one. I needed a camera and everyone in the business locally
was saying "Olympus or nothing".
I have had other bodies and lenses, but I keep going back to my OM PC when I
need a camera that can do it all. It's not as "nice" as some of the other
bodies I have used, but I can always let it take over and worry more about
following the action than setting the camera. It has seen use on trips to
Europe, on surveillance details with our Sheriff's department, and doing the
occasional "art project" in black and white.
My cameras don't get collected and stored away. The OM PC has been dragged
through the mud and rain during marijauna eradications, grabbed and shoved
on press assignments, and frozen solid more than once. For the money,
Olympus bodies are as get as it gets.
Jim Johnson
Sciotoville, Ohio
I'm in the market for an OM 2s, or an OM 4 right now. Oh, and a few more
lenses, they are getting harder to find locally.
From: "Michael P. Dodson" <mdodson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] How and when did you get into OM?
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 22:48:56 -0700
Weight led me to Olympus OMs.
I once had a full N*k*n kit - two FTn bodies, four lenses, bellows and
other
accessories. They served me well through two years in Ethiopia and twelve
years of casual shooting back in the US. I still think the 105mm F2.5 is a
wonderful lens.
Unfortunately, their weight became an issue after many years of very heavy
weightlifting compressed a disk in my back. The Olympus system was the
obvious replacement. I knew Olympus quality well since my wife had a
wonderful Pen FT collection that she effortlessly carried through Ethiopia
while I struggled with the N*k*ns. She later traded her Pens for an OM-1n
and two fat Vivitar zooms.
My present OM collection (2 champagne 4Ts, a 2n, and the usual lenses) will
serve me well till the digital medium improves enough to make silver
obsolete - another five or ten years? An Olympus 360L digicam is already
lurking under the Christmas tree!
Michael
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