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RE: [OM] 29 years old

Subject: RE: [OM] 29 years old
From: "Timpe, Jim" <Jim.Timpe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:27:52 -0700
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Hans van Veluwen 
>>>: Ha!  I'm a bit more that twice his age.  I have fungus and cleaning
marks. 
>>>> I know what you all mean.  I have scratches on my rear element, sticky 
>>>> aperture close, and my auto pre-fire doesn't. 
>>No battery drains or oily magnets?
>>hnz (rotten light seals)
And to borrow from another thread,
>>I always thought they look tacky, though as collector's pieces today I 
>>could imagine it from a different point of view. My first tele was a 200 
>>and had the silver around the rim of the retractable lens hood. Don't have

>>that lens anymore as a speed freak ripped me off back in the summer of
1984.

>>Tris

I guess, as a collector item, I do look a little tacky.  My nose isn't so
silver, but other parts of me are.  
The old blades just aren't as snappy anymore, either.  At least they aren't
too oily.  

Jim 8^\


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