On Sunday, October 13, 2002, at 12:17 pm, Walt Wayman wrote:
What's with this obsession some of you have with the OM-2S? Or with
any
OM-2, for that matter. I've got an OM-1N, simplicity and elegance
personified. I've got an OM-3, essentially a 1 with the brain of a 4.
I've got six 4's, three plain, three of the T suffix sort, and these
are
the bodies I use most. Three of them I've had since 1984, and there's
been
nary a problem. (Believe it or not, not even a CLA, although I'm
considering sending them off to John or Clint this winter.)
I don't consider myself as much of a Zuikoholic as some others on this
list (mainly because my checkbook doesn't allow for it!) and having
never used another OM-series body before, I'm not sure I'm really
"qualified" to field this one, but the OM-2 is the camera I started
with several years ago when I first took a photography course. All I
can say is that it's a great camera, simple to use and I am very
comfortable with it, so much so that I actually decided against
switching to Nikon or Canon a few months ago when the photography bug
hit me again and I decided that I wanted a wide angle lens (this,
despite the fact that the lenses I buy for it are basically "dead
end"). As a casual/amateur photographer, I have been more than happy
with its performance (mirror lockup would be nice, but I can see only
limited use for that for my purposes). All this to say... I'm happy
and comfortable enough with my OM-2 that I don't see any pressing need
to switch to another OM-series camera.
Sorry, that was a bit of a cop-out, wasn't it? =)
-f
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