My mother has a Spotmatic and it is definitely bigger than an OM. It
may be that the OM stirred up the SLR makers and prompted a move to
smaller and lighter bodies. I know that Pentax makes pretty small
"bricks" these days.
Chris
At 08:56 -0500 21/9/01, Sue Pearce wrote:
"I have a Spotmatic, 35mm f3.5 & 135mm f3.5, the body
and those 2 lenses are all larger than the OM equivalents, although not an
enormous amount larger, like for example the Nikon F.
Wayne Harridge"
My first camera was a Spotmatic. That was in the days when quite a few real
photojournalists used them, although they were going to the Nikon F in
droves soon after. I had sold my Spotmatic 5 or 6 years before I got my wife
got her OM1, which is what got me into OM's in the first place, but I
remember the Pentax and its lenses as quite a bit bigger, although they were
light.
I've still got my Nikons, and, although at the time there seemed to be a
large size difference, now it seems modest. Compare a Nikon f with an F5!
Bill Pearce
--
<|_:-)_|>
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, England.
+44 (0)7092 251126
mailto:imagopus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
... a nascent photo library.
< This message was delivered via the Olympus Mailing List >
< For questions, mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >
< Web Page: http://Zuiko.sls.bc.ca/swright/olympuslist.html >
|