It seems my attempt to introduce myself to the list was marred by a virus which
attached itself to my email. My sincerest apologies to all and thanks to those
who helped me identify and correct the problem. I feel like I've been looking
in at the window, and after working up the courage to open the door and step
inside, I find I have tracked in mud on my shoes. Since many missed my first
email due to the virus, I resending the text, minus the virus.
Greetings fellow Zuikoholics. I've been reading the digest version of
the list for about 3 months now and I guess it's time to introduce
myself. I just read Jim Terazawa's response to Frieder and learned that
Jim is a native Japanese living in Texas. Well, I'm a native Texan
living in Japan (on the western edge of the greater Tokyo area). I got
started with Olympus OM system in 1980 when my wife gave me a brand new
OM-2n as a wedding present. I loved that camera and I always got great
pictures with it, but other than a T-32 flash and 28mm lense I never
acquired much in the way of a camera system. The sad part of the story
is that I lost my OM-2n on a train in Italy about 6 years ago. Instead
of buying another one, I bought a video camera and have been without a
serious 35mm until January this year. It just hit me out of the blue
that I had to have another OM. I shopped around Tokyo, but the Japanese
are still pretty proud of their used OMs it seems and I ended up
ordering an OM-2n from Cameta in New York. Zuikoholism has struck and I
want more! I'm going to Ginza Monday and will look around some more
(that's where I hear most of the used camera stores are, but it is an
expensive area).
My family thinks I'm obsessed (or possessed) and can't see why I spend
so much time reading these long OM emails and surfing the net looking
for more information and good deals on lenses, etc. By the way, I asked
my Japanese teacher how to pronounce Zuiko. I expected it to be
zooeekoh, which if you say it fast sounds like zweekoh. She said
zweekoh is correct.
Got to run (with 5 kids, there is always something to do!)
Scott Ellison
P.S. I had no luck at all in Ginza. It was raining and windy and I couldn't
seem to find any camera shops. Well, I did find a Nikon shop, but when I tried
to enter I was roughly shoved out the door and told the store was closed.
Ordinarily the Japanese are very polite, but in Tokyo they make exceptions. Or
maybe it's just because it was Nikon. I'm glad it wasn't an Olympus store. I
finally gave up and rode home in the sardine-like conditions typical of Tokyo
mass transit in the evenings.
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