Yes, the 70's Japanese RF's you mention are nice, but they're not a Leica
M. They're a nice introduction to RF's. I'd really prefer the XA to the
RC for the same appliation.
OH, and you could buy not 3 BUT AT LEAST 15 fully CLA'd Olympus RC's for
the price of an M7 ($150 vs. $2350). The real option to the M7 is the
Minolta CLE, but you have the issue of zero spare parts aviailability,
aside from parts cameras.
Skip
Original Message:
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From: Jim Brokaw jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:38:02 -0700
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] RE: OM-3T vs...
on 10/9/02 11:10 PM, Richard F. Man at richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
For people shots/street pics with RF and quiet shutter, how about an older
fixed lens RF, i.e. Olympus 35-RC, Canon QL-17 GIII, Olympus 35-RD, Minolta
Himatic 7sII, etc? The lenses are typically a slight wide angle, usually
40-45mm focal length, which is probably what you want for street pics, and
they offer basically the same autoexposure as the M7, although not with the
wide range of shutter speeds and lens choices. But you can buy about 3 of
each for the cost of one M7... just to play around with.
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-1's, -2's, -4's, (no -3's yet) and no OM-oney...
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