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Re: [OM] Yet another M1 on evilbay...

Subject: Re: [OM] Yet another M1 on evilbay...
From: "Tom Trottier" <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 02:13:09 -0400
That went by fast!

Maybe the M1 I sorta-won 
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1354970830 (seller 
cancelled) was such a fake - look at the phillips screwheads on the 
bottom.

Tom

On Wednesday, June 05, 2002 at 9:00, Dan Lau 
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "Re:  [OM] Yet another M1 on evilbay..." saying:

> On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 11:23, "Mike Cormier" <ronaldcormier@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >55/1.2, 135/2.8 and 35/2.8 Zuikos AND a great condition M1... but I think a 
> >list member is already the high bidder...lol  This one is going to go for 
> >ALOT I predict... no connection.
> 
> >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1358083189
> 
> Those are some very nice detail pictures of the camera.  And they
> show the slotted screws used on both the body and the lens, which
> means they are genuinely "old" -- so the M-1 body is probably not
> a fake with a replaced top plate.  I believe Olympus changed to
> using "cross" headed screws (Phillips screws) when they change to
> the OM-1.  Too bad the lenses are not M-SYSTEM.
> 
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