ROTFLOL! Careful Olaf. We all have to SLEEP sometime!! You'd better sleep
with one eye open!
RonS
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Olaf Greve
> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 8:49 AM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] It's a disease alright, but I love being infected! ;)
> (long)
>
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> This is _not_ an automated reply. ;)
>
> Aaaaargh, I can't help it, the disease has struck again, and I
> just _have_
> to indulge in letting you know about the package I bought last
> week (I can't
> wait any longer, I need to share the joy with people that will understand
> me). :)
>
> As is a well known fact, a Zuikoholic's life-partner typically
> can't enjoy
> the great euforia which is brought upon us when buying new
> OM-gear. So, I'll
> have to do the sinning over here, and let you guys share my joy, in the
> notorious true Tom Scales style. :)
>
> Behold what I bought last week (Unless stated differently,
> everything is in
> very nice condition (9 or so)):
> -Olympus OM-2n (chrome)
> -Olympus 50/3.5 Macro, in hard case, with MC mark
> -Olympus 35-70/3.6, in hard case(!), with MC mark, with original hood
> -Vivitar 70-150mm matched 2x TC
> -Olympus Shoe 4
> -Olympus TTL AutoConnector 4 (cracked)
> -Olympus TTL AutoConnector T20 ;)
> -Olympus TTL AutoCord T 0.6m (the one with 2 T-jacks)
> -Olympus T20 cosmetically a bit less (8)
> -Olympus MD1
> -Olympus M.18V control grip 1
> -Olympus Relay cord 1.2m
> -Olympus double cable release
> -Off brand single cable release (short, +/ 20 CM)
> -Olympus small case S
> -Olympus 1-4n FS (in camera)
> -Olympus 1-13 FS (in box)
> -Olympus lens tissue paper (even this is original from Oly!)
> -2 bulk film holders ?!? At least I think they are (Asahi Pentax)
> -1 loader for these canisters (no brand visible)
> -Olympus Auto Bellows
> -Olympus Slide copier (without the Oly film-roll holder)
> -Olympus Varimagnifier, in original case
> -Olympus(!) 55mm A4 (81C) filter
> -Olympus(!) 55mm thin Pol (!) filter
> -Asahi Pentax 49mm Y2 filter (incl. built in hood)
> -Olympus leather T20 pouch
> -Olympus OM-2 manual (2 different ones (I think OM-2 and OM-2n))
> -Olympus OM system flyer (silver coloured, big format)
> -Het Olympus reflex boek, 2nd edition (1979)
> -Het grote Olympus boek (Franz Pangerl, 1982)
> -Het objectievenboek (Rudolf Smit, 1978)
> -Olympus Handboek OM Systeem (?Edition Olympus 6? a kind of
> SIF!!! ? coming
> from Oly Netherlands, 1982)
> -Copies bellows documentation
>
> ...and all this, thanks to yet another victim, eeehhhh "person" going
> digital! :)
>
> So, now all of a sudden I have a very nice bellows set-up, and an
> MD1! Not
> to mention an additional body (which I think I will dedicate to bellows
> usage (with a 1-12 FS), and/or to shift usage (with a 1-10 FS)), and two
> lenses! Lots of cool stuff, so expect some questions about things
> like the
> slide copier someday...
>
> Also, my studio set-up has progressed a step or two, as I now have an
> additional T20, and one of those pesky TTL AutoConnector T20s,
> and another T
> cord (albeit a short one).
>
> So, obviously I'm a very happy camper right now, BUT I do need to
> let go of
> my other 50/3.5 Macro lens, my 35-70/4, and the book of which I now have
> two, just in order to afford this whole deal. I spotted a digital
> camera at
> work over here (a S*ny, aaaaarghh, no Oly! :( ), it even has a macro
> setting, so tomorrow or so I'll try to take some close-up pictures of the
> above two lenses and put them up on my web site. Then after I've done so,
> I'll notify you guys again, and you can get a better idea of the
> state the
> lenses are in, and hopefully they too can find a nice home,
> without having
> to go through the e-Bay dungeons...
>
> Finally, you ask: how did you get all that stuff past Gioconda without
> getting busted? Well, I had to invent a clever introduction scheme, for
> smuggling stuff in these quantitities past her, without having to sleep
> alone for a month...
>
> First off, I had the whole box delivered to my work address
> (COD), and last
> Friday I brought most of it home, well hidden in my bag, and in
> my jacket. I
> was lucky, as there was nobody home, so I quickly hid everything
> by mixing
> it with the stuff I already had. For once, I had the advantage of having
> just moved and having a lot of stuff in boxes still.
>
> So, the first batch was stashed away, then came the weekend, and I was
> *dying* to try out the MD1, so I told Gioconda that "I was
> finally going to
> buy the 12 batteries needed for enhancing the studio set-up (ahum!)" (she
> had seen me messing around with winding the film manually and
> missing out on
> some good opportunities). So I briefly explained her about using
> an MD for
> that. After I had actually bought the batteries, I told her I
> would have to
> use a different body than the 4Ti for testing the batteries, as
> the 4Ti was
> mounted on the tripod still, with film in it (this is all true, and was a
> most convenient coincidence for me).
>
> So which camera did I bring down? Yes, the OM-2n + 35-70/3.6 of
> course! ;)
> This worked really well, as _all_ the attention was drawn to the
> MD, so she
> completely forgot about the camera and lens. Of course the
> typical questions
> arose: "What's _that_ thing?", "I have never seen this, did you
> always have
> it?" a simple "uh-huh" from my side kept her quiet for a bit. So then I
> started putting in the batteries, and mounted the MD on the 2n and the
> pistol grip on the MD. I turned the dial to "Single", and... the bl**dy
> thing didn't fire! I turned it to "Sequence" - nothing (aaaaargh). "Hmmm,
> strange, this should work...". Against knowing better, I turned the
> batteries around and tried it again, nothing. Suspicious looks started to
> appear on Gioconda's face, so I quickly turned the batteries
> around again,
> after cleaning a few contacts, mounted the thing, and still
> nothing. Wobbled
> the camera a bit and then TAK-TAK-TAK-TAK-TAK, there it went
> (Pheeeeeeew!!!
> Close escape!). Maybe there's a loose/dirty contact, so I need to
> check this
> in detail (which is something I should have done _before_
> bringing the stuff
> down of course (duh!) ). Either way, she was really impressed by
> the MD and
> liked the thing! So much for the introduction of the first batch,
> that all
> went rather well.
>
> Monday came, and after work I wanted to bring home batch nr.2,
> this included
> the hard cases for both lenses, the slide copier, and the Oly
> small case S.
> There was some tough stuff in there ("introduction-wise" spoken), so I
> briefly thought about a new strategy. I put everything in the
> small case S,
> put that in my normal bag, and smuggled it in. I just put the whole bag
> casually against the wall and waited an hour or so for Gioconda
> to go to the
> gym. When she did, I re-arranged a clothes closet in the attic,
> such that I
> put _all_ my OM gear on two shelfs. Bodies went together, there's a lens
> section, a flash section, an accessory section, a filter section,
> etc. The
> slide copier and Oly small case S were put on the lower shelf, in
> such a way
> that there was a big gap behind the slide copier and the back of
> the closet,
> this space was left intentionally unoccupied, to put the bellows
> there, the
> next day. Gioconda returned home, and of course I told her in a proud way
> that I had finally unpacked all of my photo bags and stored the gear in a
> closet. She went up to see what I had done, and the 50/3.5 and
> the 35-70/3.6
> hard cases slipped passed her attention. This time the questions
> came about
> (surprise, surprise) the small case and the slide copier. I
> simply explained
> what they were for. Of course this was followed by the notorious "Did you
> always have these? I haven't seen them before", followed again by an
> "uh-huh" from me. No issues, no further questions asked! She even said it
> looked very professionaly and that there was still some space for more
> lenses!...;)))) Smoootttthhhh introduction...:)
>
> Batch 3 was a piece of cake, I disassembled the bellows, put it in my bag
> along with the books I hadn't brought home yet, and came home.
> Nobody there,
> so I quickly put the books on a book shelf, and went up to hide
> the bellows.
> D*mn! I was just upstairs when Gioconda came home and asked me what I was
> doing. I quickly put the bellows in a box, and told her I was changing a
> sweater (luckily enough I wasn't on the attic yet!), close call, but I
> escaped without getting busted. I decided to wait again for her
> to go to the
> gym, played a bit with the varimagnifier, and with the bellows, and then
> stored it in the closet. The only thing left to do here is to
> introduce the
> bellows to her someday, of course that moment will again trigger the same
> old question, but I'll see if I can incorporate the bellows in some
> distraction tactic (Hans had a very good suggestion - buying her a nice
> bouquet of flowers, and then using the bellows to take some macro
> shots of
> it ;) ).
>
> So all of that went pretty well, the only *REALLY* difficult thing was
> refraining from blurring out "LOOOK WHAT GREAT CAMERA GEAR I BOUGHT!!!!!"
> ;))))
>
> So that's exactly what I'm doing here now! I just couldn't
> restrain the joy
> of telling about this great find any longer.
>
> Fellow Zuikoholic-patients of mine, thank you for listening, and
> feel free
> to share your experiences with the group too! :)))
>
> Cheerio,
> Forever-addicted Olafo
>
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