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Subject: Re: [OM] Zuikoholic
From: Frank Griffin <frankrad4@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 20:29:39 -0500
 Bob, it can get worse, I just got a package with a 2n, so now I have
three 2n's, OM-1, 1n, 4, 4T, two G's and I won't get into the details
about the glass, except to say that, theres this little voice inside my
head that says " wouldn't it be great to try all the f2's.
                              Frank
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:23:09 -0500 "LostKase" <lostkase@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> Travails of a Zuikoholic
> 
>  I bought my first SLR for a former live-in girlfriend many eons 
> ago. A fixed lens Yashica. We used it very seldomly. Later on my 
> honeymoon with another former live-in/ex-wife, 
> I purchased an Olympus OM-1 MD with a 50mm 1.4 lens. I managed to 
> retain it in the subsequent divorce. It has been my mainstay for the 
> last 20 some years. The meter died soon after I married my next 
> ex-wife. I took it to a local camera shop for a repair estimate. 
> They quoted me a price of around $150.00 dollars for a repair. With 
> diapers, 
> food, shelter and sundry other responsibilities, I bit the bullet 
> and set the camera aside in the closet. But through diligent 
> perusing of the local want adds I found a Gossen 
> Luna-Pro light meter. It was not really within my budget, but I had 
> to have it! This brought my camera out of retirement. It has since 
> recorded many life changing events. My 
> sons premature birth and 4 month hospital stay was documented in 
> painstaking detail. I would show his "baby" pictures at work and 
> devastate all my co-workers. They found 
> the pictures heartwrenching. I found them uplifting. This was my 
> son, and he was alive!
>  I used the camera to take many pictures of my children as they 
> grew, to the consternation of my wife. "You always bring out that 
> damn camera" was a refrain I bore with 
> sodden abandon. After that divorce, I listened with disdain to her 
> praise of all the pictures I had taken, which were now in her 
> possession. I had yet again managed to retain the camera, however.
>  Unfortunately, I had let the camera again fall into disuse. An 
> occasional outing would have me take it out for photo ops. I bought 
> a Sony Mavica FD83 digital camera three 
> years ago. I've enjoyed the instant gratification of the medium. I 
> bought a CRISS battery modifier. It also rekindled the lurking 
> feeling that I was missing the image quality and permanence afforded 
> by the 35mm. Soon thereafter, I succumbed to the dreaded Ebay money 
> eater. The lenses I had merely dreamed about were almost affordable. 
> I went 
> on a spending spree. My offspring's college funds be damned!
>  In rapid succession, another OM-1 body, an OM-F with an autofocus 
> 35-70mm, an OM-G with a 75-150mm, a lens package with a Tamron 90mm 
> Macro with a 50mm 1.8 and Samyang 80-200mm, The buyer also threw in 
> another OM-1 body which surprised me on its arrival! Next a Tamron 
> 60-300mm, a Tokina 500mm mirror, A trip to a local 
> camera store snagged me a Winder 1 for too much money! I then found 
> a Grip 1 with a partially functioning 310 Flash (test button does 
> not work). I couldn't pass up the Manfrotto tripod and monopod on 
> Evil Bay! A 28mm 2.8, a well used OM-4T, a Wein 500B flash Meter, a 
> 2-383/2-285 , Wein 1000 meter package with 2/283 2/285 Vivitar 
> flashes! A Winder 2! I've bought and bought and I can't stop! If 
> only I could take some pictures. But Zuikoholicism has me in its 
> evil grip! I'm afraid to use all my spoils. What if I have no "eye"! 
> I can't take the fabulous pictures I've seen displayed! I've bared 
> my soul. Thank you for listening. I just needed to get it out. My 
> name is Bob and I have a problem...


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