Hi all -
We had the Hunt Camera show here in Boston 11/6-11/8/98
and it was very well attended - and people were buying up all things
photographica!
The good ol' Blue and White of OLYMPUS was there. Had a chance to play with
their digital system - I think it looks good and is reasonably priced - but in
no rush to go digital so the OM system will live on for me.
I spoke to the OLY reps there and even admitted that I was a list member -
I was shocked to find that the reps occasionly read this list and were aware
of the OM5 suggestions we made.
They GAVE ME a blue bag and one of them slipped a dozen or so official OLY
lens paper packs into my coveted OLY shopping bag.
He asked me what I thought of the OM2000 - and I told him I had looked one
over closely and thought it was a great manual camera - but since I had an
OM1............
I bought a Vivitar 283 flash and slave and light stand. Good prices and it
seems to work well. I am going to use it for a Hair Light by permanantly
mounting it on the ceiling behind the subject. The T32 will be on camera and
bounced off a Lumiquest ProMax 80-20 flash bouncer that bounces 800pward and
20% to the subject to give both Key light and flash fill (needless to say I
took a course in 'creative flash'!)
Oh the Old OM2n I have (must be about 20 years old and never been CLA'd)
was checked by the Hunt Camera technicians - they said that the exposure on
both manual and auto was so accurate that he 'could calibrate his test
equipment with it!.
All in all a lot of fun and a great show
Cheers
Ken M.
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