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Subject: Re: [OM] Nikon School
From: John M Gaasland <gaasland@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 21:58:06 -0800
They included that feature in the OM2000, it has a special button. What
do you all think of that camera by the way? Still on the lookout for a
light camera for hikes. Later, John.

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:11:33 -0500 "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> I attended the Nikon school in 1976 as a free bonus for being a Nikon 
> Tech.
> It's almost as difficult (if not more) to do a double exposure with 
> an Nikon
> F as it is with an OM-1.  Using the double exposure feature, or 
> being able
> to do them or wanting to do them gets mentioned by aspiring 
> photographers
> along with  "I wanna use filters too, can I get some of those...." .
> With an F you have to take the first exposure, then  REWIND THE FILM 
> ONE
> FRAME then wind the shutter and shoot again.
> 
> The percentage of double exposure pictures compared to regular 
> pictures has
> got to be so low, it's funny how a camera will be rated by it's  
> inclusion
> of that feature, even though it will almost never be used, or will 
> be
> ignored once the charm has worn off.
> 
> John  Hermanson
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kelton Rhoads" <krho@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus List" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 10:24 PM
> Subject: [OM] Nikon School
> 
> 
> | >Actually on June 9th down in St. Louis there is a one day Nikon 
> course
> | >being held about intro photography skills and techniques. I'm 
> really
> | >thinking about going and it says all levels of experience and all 
> cameras
> | >are welcome so i think that will be a good resource for me. i'm 
> not quite
> | >sure who the instructor is but hopefully it will be pretty good. 
> thanks
> | >for the advice.
> | >Eric
> |
> | I attended Nikon School twice. Once as an 8th grader (and yes, my 
> new
> | OM-1 DID get dissed . . . "Oh, an Olympus, how cute. It can't do 
> double
> | exposures worth squat, though."), and again with my fiancee as a 
> 30 year
> | old. The first time I thought it was great. The second time I 
> asked for
> | my money back (and got it). I'd rather sit through a four-hour
> | commercial. I learned virtually nothing the second time around, 
> and I'm
> | no photo pro, just a hobbiest. My fiancee (now wife) was bored to 
> tears
> | and demanded we leave early. She is about novice level. So if the 
> school
> | didn't work for either novice or hobbiest, you might wonder what 
> it was
> | for. The answer? Advertising purposes, what else? I guess I really 
> don't
> | blame them, in an age where even those little bars that separate 
> the
> | groceries at the checkout have advertising on them. The real 
> surprise is
> | how, as a kid, you're oblivious to the hype and commercialism, and
> | everything just seems wonderful. Ya get older and all you hear is 
> the
> | shilling and hyping and selling. So my takeaway advice is this: if 
> you've
> | just invested a mint in new Nikon gear, definitely go to Nikon 
> school
> | because it will help reduce your cognitive dissonance. Otherwise 
> buy a
> | good photo book and some film. Feeling particularly curmudgeonly 
> on this
> | topic, --Kelton
> |
> 
> 
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