Good call Ken
The refrain of "let's use our Zuikos" is a rare one in my household at present.
I have some weeks off work while I prepare to sally forth to Operation Provide
Comfort (or whatever the politicians are using to justify our presence in
Northern Iraq now) in February; but have I got up every morning to test out my
new tripod or to check that the MC 50/1.8 is still the sharpest? No! I have
been resurrecting my computer (hard drive failure) tidying the garden (lazy
tenants while we were in Germany) unpacking boxes (not staying long before we
head off to a NATO post in Holland, after Turkey) and trying to get my wife's
New Beetle type-approved while we are in the UK (no mph on the speedo, bought in
Holland while in Germany).
So I'm going to put my foot down... photos every day or bust!
BTW, Denton or Ken: did you get the late model MC 35/2.8 that you were searching
for? Worth the trouble?
Chris
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Chris Barker
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>From: Ken Norton <image66@xxxxxxx>
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] Frozen fingers and thawed film
>Date: Sat 15 Jan 2000 02:50
>
> Well, I got together with Joel Wilcox for another rendition of "Let's
> actually use our Zuikos." We braved the early morning cold air to chase
> eagles and managed to frost a few facial hairs in the meantime. Cold?
> Yup! Sunny? Not till later. Windy? Oh yeah.
>
> We blasted away at the eagles for a while and then sought out the
> neighborhood Golden Armpits to thaw our fingers with hot cups of coffee.
> After our outer extremeties had become mobile again we jumped back in the
> Jeep (manditory SUV content) and headed out for a spot that I had cased out
> earlier in the week. We spent a little while on an old bridge sticking way
> out into the lake (dammed up lake). Being that the cold wind was blowing
> straight down our windpipes we didn't lurk around that spot too long, but
> we did spend quite a bit of time (two hours at least) in a little cove on
> the south side of the lake and out of the wind. There was plenty of
> bleached out wood debris to photograph and I managed to eake out 65 frames
> on a single 36-exposure rolls of film. Yup, my OM-1 with Winder-1 decided
> to slip cogs in the cold. I grabbed the OM-2S (which had been happily
> hibernating inside the bag all morning) to retake the critical shots--just
> in case.
>
> On the way back to my house we talked politics (manditory Clinton Content)
> and discovered that we like/dislike the same/opposite people for entirely
> different reasons. Imagine that! Oh well, I guess we can't be friends
> Joel. <g> Let's just make sure we keep George and Denton in the dark--we
> don't want both of them beating us up. <g>
>
> I looked at Joel's 90/2 lens. Wow! That is one beautiful hunk of glass.
> I WANT ONE!!!! I just need to get a job so I can buy one. He loaned me
> his XA to check out. So far, I am quite impressed. It is the perfect size
> for me and meets/exceeds my feature list. Now the big question is whether
> or not the picture quality is up to my expectation.
>
> For those of you wondering why you can't find used OM-2S bodies--Joel has
> them all. <g> He has an entire harem of those camera bodies. I think he
> is stockpiling them. But strangly enough, it was our manual cameras that
> got all the use this morning. I keep forgetting to buy another package of
> chemical hand warmers to secure to the OM-2S.
>
> Thanks Joel. Had a great time. It beats going to work--even though I
> don't usually go to work. Till next time.
>
> Ken (returning to our regularily scheduled programming) Norton
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