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Re: [OM] 85/2: a good buy?

Subject: Re: [OM] 85/2: a good buy?
From: Chris Barker <imagopus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:16:50 +0100
Gary thanks

CAUTION: list subscribers who go here risk driving others crazy . . .

I thought that, as I left my chair on reading your post to dig out the body with the 85/2 attached (OM1N), from one of 3 camera bags (Billingham 206) from its current resting place (nearly under the rear wheels of my computer chair: "I wonder how often, around the world, an OM List member gets up to check a front element here, a serial no there, an *Bay auction in the ether (not me btw).


Speculation (since I can't see the lens): your multicoating isn't
Olympus's characteristic green of the most modern production lenses. But
its multicoated, none-the-less. Aim it at a point light source (sun or a
light without a frosted bulb) and your see some green reflections among
other colors.

It does, and it makes it seem so much more valuable ;-). That's called "cognitive dissonance" I think.

Chris
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