Wow, what a coup d'etat!!! You are so right on. Think
just another 4T for us old farts. Hey, after everybody
has gone to smart-auto-digital-etc. we replace our
lens end caps with cheap 4Ts.
Andre.
--- w shumaker <rlist@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Don't listen to those other people, you don't want
> one! repeat, You
> don't want one. OK, Just because no other new camera
> (you don't want
> one) has -5EV metering, (which you *really* never
> ever use) *And* you
> are limited to 8 measly spot readings - hence you
> really don't need one
> of these because you can get a new camera with
> matrix metering that
> takes more than 8 spot readings all at once, so you
> don't even have to
> think about what you are doing. It's really too much
> work to hunt
> around the scene trying to figure out what you
> should meter on, all
> those zone things, and by then you will have lost
> your composition with
> too much thinking. The OM-4t is no fun at all, so
> you really don't want
> one. Trust me. Besides, you have to change the
> batteries at least once
> a year, sometimes even within 6 months because you
> hate using it so
> much. It's a dead camera system, listen to your
> instincts, you don't
> want one. Get another brand, you need auto-focus and
> auto-thinking.
> Those other cameras are so much smarter than we can
> ever be. You'll
> wear out your thumb with *manual* film advance. Who
> can bother with
> that these days, one more thing you have to think
> about, and you'll
> miss the shot because you forgot to advance the
> film. It's really a
> drag. With another system, you'll even be able to
> get a digital SLR
> body to go with your lenses. Leave the OM's for the
> old farts that need
> a few more spares for their dying camera system.
> There is no
> intelligence to be had getting an OM-4t. You don't
> really want one. You
> should sell those other lenses and get some
> auto-smart intelligent
> camera system, not an OM-4t. (So what lenses do you
> have for sale?)
>
> Wayne
>
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