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Subject: :[OM] Today's wedding shoot renamed: to OM or not to OM
From: KenK1ZYW@xxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 08:06:07 EDT
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 21:13:39 -0500
From: Ken Norton <image66@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] Today's wedding shoot

I did a wedding shoot with another photographer today.  I used the
company's standard fare Canon A2 getup.   In clarification to what I wrote
about a while back, the EOS body aggrivates my carpel-tunnel.  I figured it
out today:  The EOS body is thicker which makes my hand grip around a
larger area.  The Nikon and my OM w/winder has a much smaller grip.  My
wife suggested that I start wearing a wrap on my wrist whenever I need to
use the EOS camera.  Good idea, I think.
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Well as some of you know I am going to a far off land and have been looking 
at other camera systems to find the best travel combo...

I tried a Nikon N90 and like Ken N. have found the bodies of some of these 
Canon adn Nikon "superbricks" very uncomfortable and unnatural. I settled on 
the N70 because it is a little smaller   and feels better - but for some 
strange reason has no depth of field preview. Even this beast weights more 
than om4t, om2n and 3 lenses!

So now comes the deadline as to which to bring. N70 w/ 28 to 200 lens (has 
built in flash with all the bells and whisles) or the OM set up - small, 
light, excellent glass but with a far less sophisticated flash system - The 
country will be very sunny, so I will be needing flash fill alot. The lenses 
for the N70 weigh in pounds, the lenses for OM's weigh in a few ounces.

If I had a choice, and since the systems are not mutually exclusive, I'd 
bring both systems for the obvious of each; but weight restrictions preclude 
this.

BTW, I am going on an expedition to first to Loc Nes (which from Boston, MA 
is not that remote) and then to the Transcaucus country of Armenia (a place 
that I think can be called a 'far off and remote' destination. :-))

I won't be leaving for a few weeks, so I've decided to decide  later on the 
decision of to OM or not to OM.....

Cheers
Ken M

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