Well, I'm not sure that there is any purpose to design a camera that is
enough impact resistant to take a three foot trip to a tile floor. I'd buy a
carpeted floor, but still. Also, why would one squeeze a focusing ring as
hard as possible? Really? One thing that I've noted about old Nikkors,
Zuikos and Leica lenses is the nice smooth feel of focusing rings. I don't
need a camera built in a Russian tractor factory.
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From: Dawid Loubser
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 2:37 PM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Re MF VS 35
There is absolutely no question about the fact that a Nikon F, and the
early Nikkors, are of much superiour construction quality to any OM
camera.
* I had an OM fall a mere 40cm onto a tile floor (a "gentle" fall),
and the shutter speed mechnism was totally broken
* My 1995 OM-3Ti has required service twice to keep accurate slow
shutter speeds, my Nikon F has never been services since 1970
* Squeeze almost any OM lens, and the focusing resistance changes
(even becomes impossible to focus on some lenses) - squeeze a Pre-Ai
1960 Nikkor lens with all your might and it stil focuses smoother than
any OM lens
Let's not delude ourselves. If this doesn't suffice, try opening up
both an OM and a Nikon F, and you'll see a massive difference inside.
The OM's are still sexier, and the OM lenses render nicer.
Dawid
On 24 May 2012, at 6:47 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
> Since when are OM's less reliable than Nikon F's? I keep hearing
> this old
> crap, let me tell you, I have owned and shot professionally both
> systems,
> still have some of both, and have never noticed any difference in
> durability
> or reliability between the two. It would seem that the Nikons have
> more
> ability to shrug off abuse, but since when should we abuse our
> equipment in
> the first place? And that's not to say that I haven't banged mine both
> around some.
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