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[OM] Close the Blinds, There's a New Neighbor! (Lengthy)

Subject: [OM] Close the Blinds, There's a New Neighbor! (Lengthy)
From: BriarPipes@xxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:04:52 EDT
Greetings to all:

Don't we all, at times, secretly relish the opportunity to eavesdrop?  
Perhaps it occurs while standing in a slow-moving queue, or during a 
commercial flight that's chock-a-block with passengers.  The reason I mention 
this is that I have been leaning-in in order to read your discussions 
regarding all things Olympus.

I've taken much delight in reading and learning of the steady contributors to 
this group.  Among some of my favorites are Doris Fang, whose wit and 
knowledge of photography are readily apparent; Ken Norton, a wonderful 
raconteur; John Hermanson, the final authority when it comes to Olympus' 
innards.  (I'd love to have a Zuiko lens for every time that Mr. Hermanson 
has answered OM1 battery queries: e.g., No, your grandmother's hearing-aid 
battery won't give accurate meter readings.)

As a way of introduction, I am an exclusive Olympus user.  I own a Zoom 130 
P-n-S and some digital Oly model I got in Tokyo a couple of years ago.  Oh 
yes, I'm also a veteran OM1 MD owner and user.  The OM1 is my main camera for 
pleasure and work; I'm a contributing editor and semi-demi-pro photographer 
for a specialty tobacco (largely cigars, pipes, and the like) retailing 
magazine.  Since tobacco is grown in some 120 countries worldwide, my OM1 has 
been my steady, and often only, photographic companion on my journeys.  I 
even took it when I was lowered, alone, in a small iron bucket more than 100 
meters deep in a primitive meerschaum mine beneath the plains of central 
Turkey.  

As for the quality of the photos I shot, well I'm my own worst critic, which 
is as it should be.  I've blown many an opportunity to get a great shot.  And 
I've failed my OM1 oftener than it has failed me.  I can't envision parting 
with it, for after all, it's family.

My financial compensation for magazine work is laughably meager; my wife 
would prefer that I write a series of best-selling novels and become 
dizzyingly wealthy.  But I am well-off in terms of the satisfaction my OM1 
has brought me over these many years.

My advance apologies for the prolixity of this initial posting.

James Lawson



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