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Re: [OM] Help me! Help me!

Subject: Re: [OM] Help me! Help me!
From: dolphans1@xxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 18:46:56 +0000
Personally I'd wait for the newer digital. You can 
always buy the E-20 and use it, then sell it on ebay and 
get some of your money back, if you can afford to do it.

Sam....

> Get it  as far in advance as possible so you can learn to use it, and get
> plenty of backup nimh batteries.
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> From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 10:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [OM] Help me! Help me!
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> 
> > Slick, silver-tongued devil that I am, after only moderate
> > cajoling and the tiniest bit of whimpering, I have been given
> > permission by my good lady wife to buy an E-20, or the like,
> > before we leave for Alaska the last week in June.  I've decided to
> > go digital on this outing to avoid the airport film x-ray hassles
> > and travel as light as possible, leaving the OM stuff at home.
> > These cruises are, after all, not full of great photo
> > possibilities, but are more snapshot opportunities.  I really
> > don't think they'll change course or anchor for a while just so I
> > can get a better shot.
> >
> > So I am soliciting opinions regarding which of two possible
> > courses of action to take:
> >
> > (1) Go ahead and get an E-20, even though the price is still high
> > and it does have certain faults, some of which are currently under
> > discussion here.
> >
> > (2) Wait for the interchangeable lens digital body.  I understand
> > it's supposed to be in the $1500 range, and if so, that leaves
> > $500 of my allowance for a lens, possibly a zoom the equivalent of
> > the E-20 lens.
> >
> > I have always been opposed to buying serial number 0001 of
> > anything, so I am a little leery on that count.  I don't want to
> > be the first to discover some disastrous problem that will be
> > fixed by the time they make number 1001.  But whatever I get, I
> > want to have it a month or so before we leave so I can have time
> > to become familiar with it and be comfortable using it.  When is
> > this thing supposed to be available?
> >
> > Decisions, decisions.  Anybody got a suggestion?  An opinion?  A
> > clue?  The tiniest glimmer of a thought?
> >
> > Walt Wayman
> >
> >
> >
> >
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