Hej Per
I have not seen a new iS-3000 for sale in Denmark since I bought mine nearly a
year ago, and that one had been staring at me for some months from a dealer
window - I sold an OM-2S and a couple of lenses to get the money to buy it. I
think that it is great! I do have a couple of OM-4Ti's as well, but the 3000
gets a lot of use.
We usually get fuji-based APS processing now to save money (80kr), but the box
that holds the prints and cassette with negs inside, and the photoindex are not
of the same quality as Kodak's. Kodaks's PictureCD is also significantly better
than the various Fuji-based competitors. That is actually what I meant by
presentation. You are correct about Centurion's (lack of) support for APS
features, though the printing of date and time on the back of each print is very
useful when the family comes to look at unarchived/unsorted prints a couple of
years later!
My wife was also recommended to buy a smaller APS pocket camera by her friends,
but she is very glad that she chose the Centurion. The quality of her pictures
is proof that she chose correctly.
And thanks for the comment about my list contributions; I always read yours too!
hilsener / regards
Roger Key, Copenhagen
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From: <rdk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] What is a fair price for a used Centurion?
> Hej Per
Hej Roger.
... Pretty strange
that you cannot buy the Centurion /-S which was released only some three or four
years
ago, but on the other hand you can still buy the iS-3(000) which was released
back in
1992?? (guess though it would have been worse if it had been the other way
around ;-))
Is (processing) that expensive? My impression was otherwise that APS processing
prices was coming
down. You can actually get a 40-exposure film processed for 69 SKR here now, but
that's
not at Kodak of course. Is it worth the extra money to get it done by Kodak do
you think?
> 35mm processing costs 50-80 kr, with 50 kr
> being adequate normally. But the APS prints are presented very nicely.
Could you please elaborate a little on this? AFAIK the Centurion has a rather
basic
support for the various APS features.
> If I was offered an extra Centurion for 800 DKK (ca. 1000 SEK), I would buy
it.
> mvh / regards
> Roger Key
Thanks for your advice Roger. I have been thinking of a Centurion (preferrably
the "S")
for my mother, since I happened to sell her Oly AFL-T compact last year. :-).
Now she's
"borrowing" my M*n*lt* AF Tele Super. I reckon she can't get a better camera
than a used
Centurion at these prices (~1000-1200 SEK). My only concern is if it still might
be too
large and heavy for her. Of course, if she could manage the bricklike AFL-T all
those
years it shouldn't be too great a problem... ;-)
Btw Roger, there are a few people who's posts I always read no matter what, and
you're
definitely among them.
Med vänlig hälsning,
Per Nordenberg
Kolmården, Sweden
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