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Re: [OM] 50mm: Which one to keep?

Subject: Re: [OM] 50mm: Which one to keep?
From: "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 12:42:32 +0000
Hmmm, thinking about it . . .
OK, thought about it for approximately 5 picoseconds.
Sorry, cannot part with them. Can't seem to get them much farther than about 10 feet from the camera bag.

My camera bag is black, a fitting color for what has become somewhat like a "black hole." [Maybe Hotel California too ??] Once something enters, it never permanently leaves. I am able to extract a few things at a time using considerable energy, and only for short periods within a limited region of the bag. Then they get sucked right back in again. I predict collapse when at least one of every Zuiko plus one of every OM single-digit body finally crosses its event horizon. Not gravitational collapse, but me from trying to carry it all. In the mean time, I keep telling the other half that it works like a black hole. Once in, it can never be permanently extracted.

-- John

At 09:18 3/26/01, Ian Nichols attempted the following trade:
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, John A. Lind wrote:

(about his collection of 3 50/1.4s)

> Guilty as charged. What do you expect from a hardcore Zuiko . . . er . . .
> um . . . uhhh . . . hobbiest.
>
> I'm keeping all three, too.  They're "body caps" for the OM bodies I have.

I've got 3 genuine Olympus body caps, one with the very rare pinhole
modification.  I'd be quite happy to swap them for your 50/1.4s.  Just
think how much less weight you'd have to lug around if you used these
lightweight synthetic polymer caps instead of all that bulky glass &
metal.   And then there's the space saving.  And you'd be much closer to
the spirit of the OM system too (light weight, compact size).  Go on,
you know it makes sense.


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