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Re: [OM] OM2000?

Subject: Re: [OM] OM2000?
From: Joel Wilcox <jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 20:22:14 -0500
At 04:37 PM 10/14/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>Anyone hear have any experience with the OM2000?
>

Got one. Lotta bang for the buck. Very nice little bod although I had to
modify the shutter lock so that I could shoot verticals comfortably with
it. (If you push the winding lever in it locks the shutter;  when I look
through the viewfinder on verticals my forehead pushes that lever in and
locks it up -- not good.) The modification is very easy to do and is easily
reversed. Maybe not an issue if your forehead slopes north. 8-0

Smoother mechanical shutter than an OM-1 (probably), faster sync speed than
any other OM (although I've never used flash on mine -- no TTL of course),
I like the LED meter display (though others hate it), it's very light and
compact. Viewfinder seems a trifle brighter than a classic OM with a
1-series screen but not as bright as with 2-series.

I shoot Provia or Elite EXB and get excellent, predictable results.

It has very little resemblence by look or feel to a classic OM. If you must
have shutter speed ring at the lens mount, no amount of kudos will get you
to like this camera.

Joel Wilcox
Iowa City, Iowa USA

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