may be they have that bad habit of a displaced social distinction habitus...
(sorry for P. Bourdieu)... like finding an OM1 more classy than a leica...
or always going for the other solution... individuality with social
recognition...
If you want to be seen in a car and don't have the money for a Ferrari...
try a Trabant... (bad exemple, my OM makes pictures as good or better than
the N*kon... not the traby...), if you want a "status" fontain pen, do not
buy a Mont-Blanc, but a Sheaffer Connoisseur (discontinued), Pelikan 1000 or
an OMAS or even a Monte-Grappa...
We chose a very particuliar system, not because it was the best or the most
expensive or the most reputedly socially distinctive, but because it was
different... and that we could'nt afford an Alpa...
Not that the Zuikoholics are different... but they want to be...
different...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry Wiechel" <h.wiechel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'olympus mailing list'" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 1:47 PM
Subject: [OM] Common Personality
> hi there all,
> reading through all the mails (or most anyway) flooding in every day from
> this list it makes me wonder if there is something OM-users and
> Zuiko-glass-freaks worldwide have in common (other than the obvious
> addiction to zuikolism I mean) something like a common personalty maybe.
> Was this ever discussed before? ....... just thought I should pin this
> question to the list.
> ....also how many list members are there? does anyone know?
>
> just curious...
> harry :-)
>
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