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Re: [OM] I've been shopping :-) part II: the 40/2.0 Zuiko !

Subject: Re: [OM] I've been shopping :-) part II: the 40/2.0 Zuiko !
From: "John A. Prosper" <prosper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 09:33:06 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998 VELUWEH@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

|Last friday I saw an ad in a Dutch photo magazine (F+D) I'd just bought
|for a 40/2.0 Zuiko, for only Hfl.495 (about 250 $US). You can image I
|called as soon as possible, the next morning. First the young salesman
|didn't know where I was talking about, and couldn't find the lens after
|looking quickly ("it probably is already sold") but I insisted and told
|him of the ad which was published just the day before, and this time he
|looked better and found it. Yes this 'pancake' lens can easily be
|overseen. But now it's mine!

I remember the Bristish photographer, David Hurn (sp?), felt Olympus
should have offered a 40/1.4 lens with a 55mm filter size for the
ideal normal lens.


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