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Re: [OM] What's your favorite OM body?

Subject: Re: [OM] What's your favorite OM body?
From: T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:44:40 +0100 (CET)
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 scharfsj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi gang,
> Some of you that I am pretty rapidly becoming a Zuikoholic. I am 
> about to buy my third OM body (a 2S), the first new OM body 
> purchase for me in about 20 years (I have two OM-1N's). I'd like 
> to pose a question to the group, as I know many members have 
> multiple OM bodies:
> 
> What's your favorite OM-series body and why?

Favourite:
        OM2s/p (OM2S to you americanas). 

Why:
        Because the manual-mode, (single continous) spot-metering mode
        that is unique to the OM2s/p suits perfecyly my way of taking
        pictures.

Grr:
        Why did Olympus never make an OM1s (guess the features of the
        s)???

> What don't you like

Don't like:
        Uhmm.....you mean that there's unlikeable OM-bodies? No,
        seriously. That would have to be the double-digit series, although
        I have and love OM20/30/40 and don't want to part with them. I
        guess that if I had to, they'd go before the rest.
 
Why not:
        Basically, they're build (explicitly in the OM10) as "auto-cameras
        with a manual option which we rather not you use". The viewfinder
        shows, even in manual mode, the "reccomended shutter time" without
        indicating the "real" shutter time (or how far the apeture/shutter
        combo is from the "reccomended" exposure). A bit of an annoyance
        to me, since I take a large amount of my stuff in manual (just a
        habit)

Why do I then like them anyways:
        It's not always that I (want to) go manual. E.g. on a recent trip
        to London, I brought the OM40 (thanks again, Bernd), ran the whole
        tour (with Kodakchromes, none the less) in program mode with ESP
        enabled. For a film that is so unforgiving as the Kodakchrome, I
        was pleased to find that most shots were actually "right on" - or
        close. I went on a "business-mainly,  but with a weekend
        off" tour, so I didn't have much space for gear, nor the desire to
        spend the scare time on making "art". I just needed snapshots,
        to show when I came home. There, the OM40 was just perfect ;)

> and why?  I'd like to know details here folks, things like how you 
> like the metering system, the look of the camera, or just how it 
> feels to use it. I know that I love the velvety feel of my OM-1s when 
> I use them. 
> 

Sorry. Cannot comment on the looks or such. I take pictures with my
cameras, not off my cameras ;) I've really never thought about that. I do
prefer original body-caps and lens caps on my stuff,
but....uh......ehh....I used to prefer black bodies (camera bodies,
guys, camera bodies) when I was younger - though now I am really
indifferent to that.

In general, I went olympus for the compact size (also of the lenses),
the fact that the shutter-speed ring is mounted in a sane place, where it
can easilly be adjusted by the same hand as the one setting apeture, and
the viewfinder (bright, with the right info - hey, this was in the OM1/OM2
days).

--thomas

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  Thomas Heide Clausen
  Civilingeniør i Datateknik (cand.polyt)
  M.Sc in Computer Engineering

  E-Mail: T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
  WWW:    http://www.cs.auc.dk/~voop
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