I'll be blunt and say I don't give a d*mn about digital cameras. My
first digital camera was an Olympus, and it's been sold and forgotten
years ago. I don't do digital at all today. Does that matter? Is the
list nothing more than a wish list of new features? Sure it's always fun
to play around with new gadgets, but aren't the images that come from
those gadgets more important than the gadgets themselves?
Isn't the list a perfect opportunity to support its members? Have you
all forgotten how when Olympus dumbed film cameras it was less than
appreciative to its film-buying customers? Do you really think you
should be made to pay $10 to download an Olympus OM2n manual from the
Olympus site? Konica Minolta is doing the same thing to its customers
now that it has stopped all photography sales.
I have an OM2, and I plan to get a few more Oly film cameras, and I love
stories of the film years.
Allan Wafkowski
khen lim wrote:
> It's really s-i-m-p-l-e. When I first arrived at this List, I contributed
> postings concerning my time at Olympus during the film era, which of course
> would mean that I would speak of the OM SLRs and Maitani. After all these
> were my experiences. I was then told that this was great and many people
> wanted to hear about these.
> If I were ever told earlier that, no, no one wants to hear about the old
> days anymore, I would have shut up and gone on to participate in all things
> digital.
> In short, I was responding. I played my part. I contributed. I shared.
> The term "self-bilge" is unnecessarily coarse and certainly judgemental. I
> take offence to it and I'm using this opportunity to let those who wrote
> that or agree to it to know that.
> I just cannot understand why there are people who find it necessary to judge
> characters because I believe that if you do so, you must be beyond judgement
> yourself. Perhaps you're perfect. And perhaps you're beyond criticism.
> I accept Chuck's comments that for him, it's more important to know what
> Olympus can do that will fit his requirements. That is fine.
> I would certainly appreciate it if people learn to behave themselves. And if
> all that was said in "jest," I didn't find it funny.
>
> K.
>
> On 14/09/06, Johann Thorsson <johann@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> People with different cultural backgrounds do express them selves in
>> different ways. Sometimes what is considered normal by one culture is
>> seen
>> as offending by another.
>>
>> J
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 11:17 AM
>> Subject: [OM] Re: new sensor
>>
>>
>>
>>> I think that's a bit harsh. I'd have called it simply living in the
>>> past. Unfortunately, Maitani-san is gone and the question for Olympus
>>> today is what are you going to do for me *today*.
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
>>> Mark Dapoz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, William Sommerwerck wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I'm going to get personal again. Most of what Khen posts strikes me as
>>>>> self-indulgent bilge.
>>>>>
>>>> You noticed that too eh? :-)
>>>> -mark>
>>>>
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