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Subject: [OM] Re: How old were you?
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 17:14:35 -0800
Well, as someone else mentioned, they didn't have OMs when I was a tyke. 
My first camera was a Kodak Brownie twin lens box at about age 5. I 
fooled around with my dad's folding Kodak 120 camera and took a couple 
of pics of the moon with it hanging off my home made 4 1/4 inch 
reflector telescope made from a peice of aluminum irrigation pipe in my 
early teens. Didn't use dad's Practiflex much, that tiny view in the top 
was terrible. I did a lot with his Topcon Super-D in late HS and early 
college, then his Nik*n Ftn, then my own.

The OM-1 didn't come until 1973, the first year of production under that 
name. I don't remember what month I bought it, but the production code 
is June, 1973 and I bought it new. The Nik*n went to a new home and the 
OM-1 and 50/1.8 are still with me and older than my children. Oh yes, I 
was 29 at the time and I'll be 60 in a couple of weeks. Next camera was 
an OM-2n with 100/2.8, next lens a 35-70/3.6, all new, still with me, 
but I use OM-4s and OMPCs almost exclusively these days..

Moose

jamesbcouch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>For those brave enought to answer -
>
>How old are you now (you can skip this part if you wish!) :)
>
>And (more importantly) how old were you when you bough your first OM, 
>and what was it?
>  
>


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