G'day Johan,
Your story is so like mine that I had to respond. Next month I'll be
exactly twice your age but one of the cameras you mentioned, the
Hasselblad, struck a chord. I bought a used one in the early eighties,
it had the Planar 2.8/85, a fabulous lens. I used the camera for taking
set-ups on machine tools in our small engineering business but of course
also used it for taking personal pics. But the cost of extra lenses even
secondhand was so prohibitive that when we sold the business in '84 I
let the camera go with it. I've been sorry ever since!
But having recently acquired a nice black OM-2n to add to several others
on the shelf I'm happy, particularly as the results from my year old Oly
C-8080 digital have also been good.
I'm now tossing up between the E-500 and the Canon 350D for a DSLR after
the penny jar gets full again.
Regards,
John,
Sydney, Oz.
Johan Malmström wrote:
<snip>
> Dear List!
>
> I'm having a photo crisis... You can help me. All of this lengthy letter is
> relevant, but you can skip 90 % of it and head down a few pages to the end.
>
> <ZA story from Johan>
>
> But I can see the signs, film is not the way to go for my every day shots.
> Now my E-6 processor only process film on 3 of 5 working days. For art I
> think that film will be around, there will be small and expensive market but
> it will be there. If not banned of course, but that is another story. So
> what do I need. Well something I can throw in the bag under the trolley that
> lets me make the photos I want. So what am I looking at, for instance the
> Olympus SP-500. Seems right in size, but don't get wide enough. The R*cho GR
> Digital is probably wide enough, but that's all. The Panason*c DMZ-FZ30,
> doubles the SP-500 in price, and it's quite large.
>
> So help, what have you chosen for a modern age OM-replacement for lets say
> the next 5 years, because I can't see the E-series be that.
>
> / Johan
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