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Re: [OM] Re: Nikon user facial structure (was: OM-2000 impressions)

Subject: Re: [OM] Re: Nikon user facial structure (was: OM-2000 impressions)
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 22:37:15 -0700
>At 07:11 AM 9/11/1998 GMT, you wrote:
>>On Thu, 10 Sep 1998 22:16:33 -0500, Joel Wilcox wrote:
>>
>>>I just tried looking through the FM2 (similar body shape, size, and style
>>>to the FG) with my left eye and the shutter lever out a la the OM-2000 and
>>>I can do so with impunity.  Not even a hint of danger or discomfort.  Must
>>>be differences in facial structure. I'm certain that not all Nikon users
>>>focus with their right eye. Oly users are the only persons I've ever heard
>>>comment on this.
>>
>>So this is it! The Nikon user facial structure allows for the weird
>>lever sticking into it without discomfort being felt....
>>
>>Maybe we could start some research here, to determine which are the
>>differences in facial structure between Olympus users (delicate?) and
>>Nikon users (Tarzan-type?).
>>
>>Frank van Lindert
>>Utrecht NL.
>>
>Yes, Frank, you have uncovered the horrible secret of my tortured life:
>one side of my face shows the smooth and aquiline features of an Oly user,
>the other the hairy apelike mug of a Nikoneer (drool ... ).  Even hidden as
>I keep the distorted flesh under an iron prosthesis, how can I forget my
>furtive Nikonness?  How experience the pleasure I would otherwise take in
>my Olympian superiority? ;-)
>
>Joel
>
It is the little metal tab riveted to the nose and designed to engage some
prehistoric overhanging brow that is really disgusting.

winsor


Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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