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Subject: [OM] OM PC + others
From: grigorov@xxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 19:49:48 -0600
Hi, all.
>I thought electronic replacements for mechanical assemblies were just 
>cheaper, lighter and less maintainence, not necessarily "better"?

I wander if anyone has the info on the tolerances for mechanical and electronic
shutters. I 
really doubt that they will be the same. Also recently I came across a repair
manual in which the 
author stated that Nikon and other camera manufacturers(relax, he did not 
include
Oly) have 
to justify their claims of achieving speed of 1/4000 with a manual shutter.
 I still think that a 
good electronic design will be more reliable than a mechanical device in 
general,
but of course 
there are a lot of exceptions.

> I don't think your choice of OMPC will be strange to anyone who is lucky
> enough to have one. Someone just called it a "consumer" version of the
> OM-2S. Yes, the single-digit OM's are considered the professional models,

> although very few professionals still use OM's, so this nomenclature is
> getting somewhat meaningless. 

Can you give me reasons behind this? I am very curious. Passionate photographer
with no chance 
to become a professional any soon always thought highly of OM gear, very, very
surprised to 
hear this(also shows how out of touch I am, really, what do the professionals
use this days, 
let's exclude digital domain).

 >I got my OM-PC on Ebay WITH a Zuiko 35-70 
>3.5-4.5 zoom for $75 last year. In my eyes, I got the body for free! That's

>why i said I got it for a bargain. 

Yes, you did get that body for free. I got mine for $185 with s/h( dont you
hate this 
charges???). It also comes with 50 1.8 and a thyristor bounce flash.  To be
honest, I liked the 
camera so much that could have easily paid that amount for the body only(but
I am also known 
irrational decisions maker, give me some creditthough, this was my limit). Still
it is less than 
anything I have seen in the stores online. 

>By the way, you can leave the alphabet soup off the end of you emails 
>now.
Sorry, this is the necessary evil until our ITS guys fix the interface. It 
always
cuts the last 
sentence or two, I think have figured it now how much garbage to put at the
end so the message 
body is left only, let's see.
Boris
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