Malcolm,
I was lucky in the 70s to be growing up in a family that owned one of the
largest camera stores in the Chicago area. I know, like a kid in a candy
store.
I actually chose the Konica T3 and Hexanon line of lenses at the time.
Though I also had a Minolta XK & XE-7 with quite a few Rokors. When the OM-2
came out I thought it was too small. The T3 with my favorite lens, a
35-70/2.8 varifocal, was a big and heavy package. I had been shooting with
it for quite some time. And there was nothing in anybody's lineup that
matched the quality of that varifocal 35-70. My longer zoom was a Nikor
80-200/2.8 that we had converted to work on the T3 even in auto mode.
My father immediately switched to the OM2 and Zuikos. It took me a while to
make the change. Eventually myself, my father and my brother all switched to
the OM line.
As to the best selling cameras of the time, we probably went through more of
the manual Minoltas and Canons than anything else.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
> > Malcolm Clay wrote:
> > What was the best selling 35 SLR model of the time of the
> > introduction of the OM1? I am more interested in the "consumer" level
not
> > the pro models -- something that would have been in direct competition
for
> > the OM dollar.
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