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[OM] learning guides?

Subject: [OM] learning guides?
From: Simon Evans <sje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 10:55:54 GMT
Eric Jackson wrote:

>Hey guys, another question for you. How did you guys learn to capture life
the >way you saw it on a camera? What is the best way to fully understand an
OM >camera and how to use it? 

First Q: Practice, shoot film. Lots. Read books, magazines etc, look at work
you admire and try to work out how and why it was made. Books I would
recommend are: anything by John Shaw (if you're into landscape/nature), The
35mm Photographer's Handbook by Julian Calder & John Garrett. Go to the
library and pick out a couple of the bigger books that have "complete" or
"encyclopedia" in the title and plough through it (John Hedgecoe is a good
name). There are stacks of "How to" books, just find ones you enjoy reading
& aspire to take photos like those used as illustrations.

Second Q: start with the camera's user manual, then buy the appropriate
version of Carl Shipman's "How to select & use Olympus OM cameras". IMHO
it's the most straightforward and definitely the best value book on using
the OM system. 

BTW I have a spare copy of the 1989 Shipman book, covering the OM-88,
OM77af, OM-PC, OM4, OM4Ti. £12 + postage to UK or Europe.

Simon E.


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