G'day Thomas,
Back in the early eighties I bought a secondhand Hasselblad. It was
absolutely pristine. After many loving hours of armchair fiddling I noticed
to my despair a 5mm ding on one corner of the aluminium shroud. I stormed
back to the dealer and demanded recompense, all to no avail.
The fellow just smiled and said, "We wouldn't have sold it to you at that
price with such a mark."
He was right of course. I must have had a little accident without even
knowing it. But even though it wasn't at all obvious I knew it was there so
bought a new shroud to keep as insurance against further bumps. A couple of
years later the camera was sold.
I've still got the spare shroud!
Ah, well.
Regards,
John.
-----Original Message-----
From: T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx [SMTP:T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 8:25 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [OM] newly introduced
The same happened to an OM1 for me many years ago. While the front element
of the mounted 50/1.8 shattered (no big disaster - they come in buckets),
the body survived well for many years....until the text drop (with another
50/1.8) took it into a lake...
I have a new OM1 now ;) Works just fine...
--thomas
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, James N. McBride wrote:
> Ouch is right and that brings back memories. I dropped my original OM-1
> about five feet onto a rock and caught it on the first bounce. It still
> works perfectly and there was no physical damage....not even a dent. I
was
> impressed. /jnm
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Scott Gomez
> > Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 3:49 AM
> > To: 'olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> > Subject: RE: [OM] newly introduced
> >
> >
> > Ouch! My condolences.
> >
> > ---
> > Scott
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen Border [mailto:sborder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 01:49
> > To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [OM] newly introduced
> >
> >
> > >Bummer. That is the first one I have heard of that did not fail due
> > >to the owner accidently damaging it.
> >
> > >Winsor
> >
> > You can add me to the list of 4ti abusers, I dropped mine with
> > Winder 2 and
> > 65-200 about 1.5 metres onto concrete last week. Landed on the prism
> > housing. I'm inconsolable.
> >
> > Stephen
> >
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Mange hilsner / Sincerely
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Thomas Heide Clausen
Civilingenior i Datateknik (cand.polyt)
M.Sc in Computer Engineering
E-Mail: T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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