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Re: [OM] Olympus Speed-Magny?

Subject: Re: [OM] Olympus Speed-Magny?
From: "David Brown" <keswick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 19:47:34 +0100
There is the NPC Polaroid back which is listed for OM cameras - B&H have
them at $750 and I have seen a used one (on ebay?) in the past few months.
Does anyone have experience of using one of these?

BTW I don't suppose that NPC stands for Newton Plastics?

David

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> From: VELUWEH@xxxxxxxxxx
> To:         -         (052)olympus(a)zuiko.sls.bc.ca
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> Subject: Re: [OM] Olympus Speed-Magny?
> Date: 03 September 1998 18:07
> 
> >The Speed Magnys were Polaroid backs for Nikon cameras!
> (...)
> >Is anyone else out there interested in such a product? If enough of us
> >"gripe," maybe Newton Plastics will change its mind.
> 
> 
> A pola back or digital back is a "must have" for professional
> studio/portrait work, but how many studio professionals are using
> Olympus? If both of them send a message to Newton Plastics, then
> maybe...
> 
> A nice substitute for the rest of us might be Imagek's digital insert
> EFS-1, if they ever succeed in producing it (for $1000 or less as they
> "promise" for more than a year now at http://www.imagek.com - I'm
> afraid it looks just as much vapour(hard)ware as the OM-5).
> 
> Even for amateurs like I am a pola back, digital back or digital insert
> might be interesting to preview the shadow effect of complex multiple
> flash setups, and situations with lots of contrast. I think $1000 is
> just about the reasonable limit an amateur would be willing to pay for
> such a gadget. Inserted in or attached to an OM body, with an array of
> nice Zuikos, you get a lot of a digital camera for that money. :-)
> Could almost make me forget the 5. Almost. :-(
> 
> Hans
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