At 1:01 pm -0500 6/1/98, owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Happy New Year folks,
>
>Just want to let you know that I am back from family visit in Tokyo.
>I was amazed to see almost everybody outdoors carry mobile phones and
>Tamagotchi.
>
>Did not have time to visit Yodobashi Camera this time, but by watching
>the TV commercials and ads in the train everybody (M*****a, N***n, Oly,
>C***n) is pushing for compact digital - saw very few of APS stuff.
>I felt out-of-date person carrying arround OM-4 SLR with 180/100/50/24
>Zuiko's and filters in the camera bag. Eeven my wife commented that
>I looked silly and impractical - sigh. Should I get 35-80/f2.8 ? What
>is the price of it now these days (in USD). As of this morning the Japanese
>yen to the US dollar conversion rate is about 134yen to a dollar.
>
>Best regards,
>Jim Terazawa jimt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
What a frightening experience ;-) You're back with us now Jim, take deep
breaths. You've experienced fashion crisis. They just don't understand
that you have to suffer for your art - pulled neck muscles, dextrous
juggling with lenses and caps/filters etc etc.
Yes definitely buy the 35-80/f2.8 on the pretext that it will be more
fashionable and compact, then tell us all about it ;-)
All the best,
Clive http://clive.bel-epa.com
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