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Re: [OM] OM2 tale of woe.... :(

Subject: Re: [OM] OM2 tale of woe.... :(
From: "Shawn Wright" <swright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 21:08:28 -0700
On 1 Sep 98, at 21:53, Joel Wilcox wrote:
> Yours is a true tale of woe, but there may be a happy ending. It's going to
> depend more on how you look at it though. Would a minty OM2 be worth
> $360AU, which is what you'd have in it after repair and, I assume, CLA.
> Quite possibly.  If you got good use from such a camera for 10 years or
> perhaps much more, would it ease the pain of a risk that didn't quite pay
> off?  Very probably.
> 
> If you buy something you can eventually use and you use it for a long
> enough time, eventually it doesn't owe you anything anymore.
> 
This is a very good way of looking at things, and I agree with the 
sentiment. But what happens when keep something so long, *you* 
start to owe *it*? ;-) I'm getting to that point with my car, and even 
my OM-10... :-)


Shawn & Janis Wright
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