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Re: [OM] Siren Song--Which will it be

Subject: Re: [OM] Siren Song--Which will it be
From: Jim Brokaw <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 21:19:42 -0800
on 1/20/03 7:04 AM, Andrew Gullen at andrew.gullen@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> OK, now you've got me going - I'd like to get a better 6x9 (or so) than I
> have (a Voigtlander Bessa!) and have been eyeing various alternatives. Are
> you referring to one camera there or three?
> 
> (This list has the topic focus of a confused butterfly, and I count myself
> equally guilty.)
> 
> One of the projects I have on my list is to measure the infinity coverage of
> my Zuikos, and if they can cover 6x9 get a camera where I can get lensboards
> made with an OM mount (I bet Jim Galvin would be tickled to make some for
> his 6x9). No Zuikos would be harmed in making this setup, but some old
> bodies might have to be sacrificed (OM bodies, that is). Even if the lenses
> can't do infinity, they'd likely work fine for macro.
> 
> Andrew
> 
>> Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 23:53:35 EST
>> From: NSURIT@xxxxxxx
> 
>> Have you ever seen a Mamiya Universal/Super 23/Press with a 50mm lens mounted
>> on it . . . or the 6X9 negative it can produce?  Bill Barber

If all you want is an OM mount ring, a cheap teleconverter is a good donor,
and reducing the number of them out there is an OM public service...
-- 

Jim Brokaw
OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney... 


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