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Re: [OM] First night in Leic*-land. ;-)

Subject: Re: [OM] First night in Leic*-land. ;-)
From: julian_davies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:43:58 +0000 (GMT)
What a sensible and considerate way to start a basic photo class. Are you sure 
you want to go to the next one?

Julian

>  from:    "R. Jackson" <jackson.robert.r@xxxxxxxxx>
>  date:    Tue, 14 Jan 2003 06:12:13
>  to:      olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  subject: Re: [OM] First night in Leic*-land. ;-)
> 
> I had my first night of class in my new photo class tonight. It's an 
> elementary photography and darkroom techniques class. Gotta love it. We 
> all had to let the instructor take a look at our cameras. There were 
> about 30 of us there and my OM-4T and OM-1n were the only system 
> cameras there, although one girl did have an OM-2000. After making the 
> rounds, the instructor pulled out an M6 (black tape over the logo, 
> natch) and started telling us how nothing in the 35mm gauge will take 
> photos that look as impressive as those from a Leic* rangefinder. He 
> explained his assertion, commenting on how they invented 35mm 
> photography and that a rangefinder has a much less complicated 
> light-path than an SLR, etc, etc, etc. Then he showed us a slide 
> presentation of the work of Henri Cartier Bresson, which he said was a 
> good example of photographs taken with one of the Holy Rangefinders.
> 
> I think I have Leic* envy. ;-)
> 
> His M6 *was* a pretty cool little box. It had an amazingly compact lens 
> on it, which kind of reminded me of an Oly pancake lens. It had a 
> small, hard Bakelite/plastic/whatever rectangular lens hood. He went on 
> to talk about how Leic* won't admit it, but their SLR models aren't 
> nearly as nice as their rangefinders. It was like a sales presentation 
> for the Holy Rangefinder. The shutter was really quiet, but my shutters 
> aren't exactly loud. That's always been a draw of the Oly system for 
> me, actually. They were always so much quieter and more compact than 
> most other SLRs.
> 
> SO, I know there are some of you out there who own both, are their 
> optics really nicer than Zuiko optics? I've always been really 
> impressed with Zuiko primes.
> 
> -Rob
> 
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