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Re: [OM] Camara for beginner

Subject: Re: [OM] Camara for beginner
From: Malcolm Clay <claym@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 16:27:29 -0500
At 05:30 PM 8/25/99 +1000, you wrote:

> ...It was suggested by a sales person that a OM-1 ...


I cannot recommend the OM-1n enough. It doesn't have spot metering, but I


I still love my OM1 and use it all the time. I bought it many years ago because it was 100% mechanical (battery for meter only), compact and lightweight. One big plus was that the shutter speed dial was on the front--making it a snap to adjust the shutter speed/f-stop without taking the camera away from my eye. (I think the shutter speed on the OM2000 is on the top.) Even competing with a 3Ti, my little OM1 still earns its space in my camera bag. Don't worry about not having a spot meter in a camera that only costs a hundred bucks--it's just a box to hold the lens. (Plus it is pretty well proven that a meter doesn't make a master photographer.) Pile your money in on the glass. Later you can buy a Pentax 1-degree digital spot meter (used/checked and calibrated) and get tighter, more accurate metering than OM's spots for less money than a OM3 or 4 body.

I don't miss having an auto-everything camera. For snapshots of people I keep an Olympus (what else) P/S in the bag. When I have time to compose and think about my pictures I want my other cameras. I've heard people like me called "retro-grouch" because we want (and defend) our old, all manual, "yes you have to focus", "I'm setting the shutter speed and aperture now", "because I actually think about what I'm shooting" cameras. Now I don't want to start a holy war--that was just supposed to be a retro-grouch answering all the questions a p/s user asks about your "old" camera. (You should hear them around large formats.) Now and again having an OM2 or 4 sure would be nice, but for the most part I have been very happy with manual cameras for the past 20+ years.

So buy yourself an OM1(n) and join all of us who just need ONE more lens, oh, and a new flash, and maybe a bigger camera bag, and hey, isn't that on sale...

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