Welcome to the list, Frieder. Don't be concerned about your English; I
could say "yes," "no," and "one, two, three" in German. You are correct
about the 1-10 rating system. You will not often see anything graded below
8 (personally, I'd buy only items that are rated 9 or better). And you will
see the term "user" meaning it shows visible signs of pretty heavy use but
works (probably). Another rating system used in the US is the one from KEH,
a used (and lately new also) camera broker in Atlanta, GA, my home town.
You can read about it at www.keh.com. Their prices are a bit high, but they
are honest and conservative in their ratings, and a lot of Americans
recognize their rating system. Let me predict that you will likely receive
a few comments from zuikoholics who do not have an 85/2; they may
congratulate you, but they are really jealous ;>). It sounds to me as if
you are making a fine start.
Regards,
John Pendley
----- Original Message -----
From: <frieder.faig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 4:16 PM
Subject: [OM] introduction of myself
> Hello,
>
> I´m a listener of the Olympus Mailing list for a few time ( just about
2000 mails....).
> Because it seems to be usual to introduce a person here, I'll write a bit
about me, and my way to zuikoholism :). It wont be too much, because I´m a
german, not too fast in writing English sentence.
>
> I´m living in the south of Germany studying mechanical engineering in
Stuttgart. My first Olympus Camera was a OM-40, which was a used one, I
bought with a travenar-Zoom-set about 1993. The joy wasn't for long time:
During the first travel it showed an electronic defect. The dealer accepted
to take it back. This was a good chance to get rid of the rather big
Travenar-Zooms.
> Then I decided to buy a OM-2sp, because I`ve already bought a 1.4/50mm
Zuiko :). Soon a OM 1 and other lenses followed. And I was infected by
zuikoholism. Today I own 12 lenses, most of them Zuiko's. My favorite one is
the 2/85, I like shooting with compact and fast prime lenses, and the
Zoom's stay at home most of the time.
>
> I was very pleased to find such an active OM-community on the web.
Realizing that I´m not the only Guy playing with this old fashioned, but
fascinating Photo stuff.
>
> I'm not an native English speaker, and would have some questions about the
photo slang.
> (beeing glad, that bookeh, was explained some mails ago :).
>
> I'm not common with the English/American style of rating the condition
of used Equipment.
> Do I guess right that they're ranked form 1..10, with 10 as best value?
> - And what is meant by `mint-condition` ?
>
> So I hope with reading more and more mails I'll understand more and more
of what's going on in the Zuiko's World in the year 2000, and you know who
is sending this stuttering mail, when I send some comment`s to the list.
>
>
> Frieder Faig
>
>
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