Hi Linda
Be forewarned, this is a very enabling list....you will soon be in greater
love of OM things but with good reason. OM stuff represent the good values
of yore too easily lost in today's culture.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Wunderlich" <lwunderlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:15 PM
Subject: [OM] New member intro and story of my OM-2n purchase
> Hi, Olympus folks. I signed on to the list a few weeks ago and would like
> to introduce myself. My name's Linda; I'm 39 and live just outside
> Washington, DC in Arlington, Virginia.
>
> I got my first SLR in my teens (C*non TX) and used it until about five
> years ago. That camera even spent a year with me in the Sahara and Sahel
> (Peace Corps assignment in Mauritania), living through sandstorms and all
> sorts of other abuse. Eventually about five years ago I gave up on it
when
> it needed a CLA, new foam, and perhaps more, because the expense would
have
> been far higher than the camera was worth. Perhaps a stupid decision.
>
> Anyway, for the last five years I've just used a nice N*kon P&S which
takes
> surprisingly decent pictures, though not what I could get out of my manual
> SLR.
>
> This summer I stopped at a flea market looking for a small piece of carpet
> and on the way out I spotted some camera equipment at a vendor's table.
It
> turned out to be a nearly mint OM-2n with the original 50mm f1.8 lens, a
> Vivitar 70-210 MC macro focusing zoom, a Vivitar 2x matched multiplier
> (more on that in a later message), a couple of skylight filters, a T32
> flash, a Bounce Grip (more on that later, too), a Winder 2, and a few TTL
> autocord thingies.
>
> Immediately I fell in love with the sleekness and compactness of the
camera
> and lenses, the beautiful lines, and I remembered wanting an OM-something
> back when I got the C*non many years ago. I couldn't resist. He was
> asking $225 for the lot shortly before the close of the flea market,
saying
> that if he couldn't get that he'd put the stuff on eBay. I had $200 in my
> pocket which I had just taken out of an ATM to be my spending money
> (groceries, transportation, all those unimportant things) for the next
> couple of weeks, so I offered him that and he took it.
>
> I'm still getting used to the camera, especially the placement of the
> aperture and shutter speed rings and the depth of field preview button,
all
> of which are very different from the C*non. And honestly, I keep
> forgetting I have to focus (not to mention worry about exposure when I'm
> using it in manual), after five years of having the N*kon do it all for
me.
> I've managed to take more than a few really bad pictures so far (a couple
> of decent ones, too.)
>
> One more thing -- at my brother's wedding this past August, the wedding
> photographer saw what I was using, got very excited and asked if he could
> see it, saying "Do you know what you have here?!"
>
> Now I just have to learn to do the camera justice. I've never progressed
> beyond taking nice snapshots, and now I hope to learn a bit about
> photography.
>
> O.k., too long-winded already. Thanks for reading.
>
> Linda Wunderlich
>
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