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Re: [OM] Has Tom S. been to Paris?

Subject: Re: [OM] Has Tom S. been to Paris?
From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:13:31 -0500
Hmm...abuse....I'm use to it.

That must have been my cousin Tomas.

Tom

> Hiya all,
>
> I went - triggered by the need for a polarizing-filter - to the
> "photo-district" of Paris. Well, it's not really a district, rather a
> street (near Bastille - for those who know Paris a bit) where there are a
> fair number of photo-shops quite close.
>
> I decribed that street earlier on the list: lots of special shops (for
> Leica, for medium format etc.) and lots of second-hand gear in different
> places. Last time I went there, I saw plenty of Olympus-gear in one
> shop. They had roughly half a window full (no, there were no 40mm pancake
> lenses among - someone asked me that and then I lost the email thus
> couldn't reply). Yet this time, the very same shot had 3 OM10's and a few,
> fairly std., lenses (35mm, 50/1.8), a single BG2 and a Winder2.
>
> So my guess is, that either Tom (yes, you!) have been on a secret vacation
> here in Paris recently - or he has a(n unknown?) twin-brother in Paris,
> who shares his addiction. In any case, some zuikoholic(s ?) has been
> wondering off with quite a set: if I remember correctly, there were both
> an auto-bellow, an (overpriced?) 35mm shift and various other goodies,
> including some nice (but older) bodies.
>
> (Tom, I hope you don't mind being (ab)used like this, but it does sound
> like something you have pulled off at some point in the past....)
>
> Mange hilsner / Sincerely
>
> -------------------------------------------
>   Thomas Heide Clausen



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