Hi Michaeal,
The only cure for your inflection is getting an OM-3T.
Regards
Kam
Hong Kong.
P.S.: your post contains a vcf attachment. Are you sure it is something
safe to open?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Virsinger" <mikev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Mailing List" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 11:26 AM
Subject: [OM] It's YOUR fault!!!
> To my fellow Zuikaholics:
>
> Hi, my name is Mike and I'm a Zuikaholic. I've been one for less than 3
> months and this is my story. It started out innocently enough by buying an
> OM-1n body for astrophotography. I have never owned an SLR camera before
> this and certainly have never used one. I never intended to use it for
> anything else but astro work, but I thought I might as well pick up a 50mm
> lens so I could learn how to use the thing or just keep the dust out of
the
> body...
>
> Well, the day the camera arrived I was very excited. It was a mint
condition
> black beauty and I knew something was immediately strange the minute I
> opened the box. The camera felt so good in my hands, so smooth and
perfect.
> I fired the shutter and shuddered as I heard the sound of the mechanical
> precision. I immediately knew I needed to get that 50mm lens to make this
> baby "whole" and see what it could do. I went to the net and searched for
a
> good candidate; a mint condition 50mm f1.4 and in a local camera shop! I
> spent a long sleepless night wondering how I could get from work to the
> camera shop before it closed the next day. I even contemplated calling in
> sick so I could go first thing in the morning - little did I know how
> premonstrative (a perfectly cromulant word) that thought was!
>
> Well now its three months later and I feel the need to disclose how deep
my
> affliction goes: 1 Black OM-1n, 1 Black OM-2n, 16/3.5 fisheye, 28/f2.8,
> 40/2, 50/1.4, 90/2 macro, 75-150/4 zoom, Winder 2, Varimagni finder, T-20
> flash, T-32 flash, Bounce Grip 2, assorted shoe 4's, filters & cables,
plus
> a mint 8mm fisheye on the way. My photography skills have come a long way
> just by the sheer need to hold and use the equipment. I am now the family
> baby photographer, have to shoot our church Christmas pageant and shoot
> movie stills for a friend's movie! All I wanted was a way to take pictures
> of the stars and maybe a few planets.
>
> I blame all of you for both encouraging me and even worse selling me this
> stuff. I hold you responsible and demand that you no longer accept offers
> for equipment or lenses from me. CUT ME OFF!!!
>
> Thanks for listening.
>
> P.S. - Anyone got a black OM-4Ti for sale?
>
> Michael Virsinger
> VirTech Solutions, Inc
> 1-800-VIR-TECH
>
> http://www.virtechsolutions.com
> http://www.virtechsolutions.com/astronomy
>
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