John,
We hope you join the ranks. You'll not be disappointed at the Zuiko
quality, but don't throw away those M bodies (unless of course you want to
sell one :-)))) I am also a Leica-M user and you should look at the new
Voigtlander lenses from Cosina if you are short on cash. They are almost
as good as Leica, but at a fraction the price. You don't get the
mechanical quality of a Leitz lens, but its up there. Check out
http://www.jetlink.net/~cameras/voigtbl.htm and www.cosina.co.jp. I have a
few test reports if you interested on Voigtlander lenses vs. Leica.
skip
At 1/21/00 09:53 AM -0500, you wrote:
Hi, and thanks to those of you who helped me figure out how to do
this. My background is in
Leica, going back to the middle '50's. As a teenager I took travel
pictures w/Kodachrome
25. Later, I became deeply involved in B&W print making--so involved that
I got really
burned out. I sold my three Summicrons (awful mistake) and didn't touch a
camera for
several years. When I did, it was vacation photography again, in color,
with a Nikon 8008
and two zooms. Now I'm retired, shooting Velvia, w/Nikon, a zoom and
three primes, but
really have the itch to get back to B&W. The house we build later this
year will have a
darkroom. I would love to have equipment lighter than the Nikon and with
top-flight
optics. I love to tramp around in the woods, but have a tendancy to haul
everything I own.
I still have two Leica M bodies but can't afford the lenses. I've always
heard that Zuiko
lenses were excellent and that Olympus bodies are light, precision made,
and tough. So I'm
thinking about buying Olympus before the Nikon system gets out of hand and
I can't afford to
start over. Sorry for all the detail, but I want you to know where I'm
coming from. I
would be perfectly happy with a manual camera since that's what I learned
on. I still have
a one degree spot meter as I shot with a truncated version of the Zone
System. I would also
love the averaging spots in the OM-4T. So I'd welcome any advice/personal
stories about Oly
equipment. I've studied the features of the different OM's and, at the
moment, nothing
jumps out as the model I _must_ have. So I'm entirely open to suggestions
and would be
grateful for them. I'm in the Atlanta area and have used KEH for years,
so I have a trusted
source of used equipment, although their inventory of Olys is low at the
moment. Thanks in
advance for any tidbits you'd like to pass along.
John Pendley
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