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Subject: Re: [OM] FAQ additions...
From: DaEyeGuy@xxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 01:04:53 EDT
In a message dated 8/15/00 12:16:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jlind@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:<< Yep, The List made me do it.
 That's my story and I'm stickin' to it! >>

This isn't really so farfetched an "excuse"..after all, enthusiasm is 
catching. Hence, I suspect lunacy may be catching as well!  Heck, I'm so 
pathetic, if I go to a friend's house and they're cleaning out the fridge, it 
tends to make me want to go home to MY fridge and clean it out....

I managed to make it for 20 years without a single OM purchase...from '78 til 
'98 (with my original OM-1MD and OM-2, 24 2.8, 50 1.2, 50 1.4, 75-15, winder, 
flash grip assembly, 310 and a couple of the OM bags) when i found this list 
and then John Hermanson. I really tried a few times in the 80's to get "the 
fever"...but I'd grab a magazine and choke at the prices, wondering if they 
would EVER lower... Once, in 1992, while working in Va Beach, a GI advertised 
his OM4t with 4 lenses for $400, and I missed getting there in time by only 
30 minutes..that kind of started me down this lunacy trail. I needed to 
compensate for that loss!

 At that time I was only concerned with a 35-70...that was ALL.....until 
"you" talked and talked about the OM4's spot metering....and the T-32....and 
the T-20... and the 50 3.5 macro (HAD to have a macro!)....then I HAD to step 
up to the OM4T...then, as a side bar, I rescued a AZ-330 from Ebay...and then 
rescued an IS-1 from Ebay (I liken these rescues to saving a puppy from the 
pound.....pedigreed but unappreciated!)....then the 35-105.....then grip 
straps for all!.....then a second winder....and I'm sure I've forgotten half 
of the lunacy....oh yeah..the D450 digital...

Yet, for all the goodies, I still tend to grab the good old system from the 
70's...it "feels" right. I guess that goes to show that the old original 
system wasn't to bad.


Susan Steele
Amherst, VA USA
"There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness"." (Dave Barry)

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