Mike,
You desparately need a wide angle lens. If your budget extends to roughly
US$300, I strongly recommend the 21 f/3.5. If your budget is closer to
US$150, then go for a 24 f/2.8.
You'll love either one.
Tom
P.S. Great story
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Ferguson" <mikeferguson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 4:46 PM
Subject: [OM] Allow me to introduce myself...
> I'll start, if I may, with a Road To Damascus moment.
>
> I own a C*n*n Ixus (an Elph to those in the US - I live in London, UK),
and
> for a long time I was happy. Stick it in your pocket, always ready, never
> miss a photo opportunity.
>
> Then, for some reason, I decided to take my OM10 along with the Ixus on a
> trip to the US a couple of years ago. I snapped away (I am a snapper, I
> admit it). And was astounded by the results - the difference between the
> pictures from the OM10 and those from the Ixus was unbelievable. I'm sure
> the 35mm vs APS debate will have been done to death on this list at some
> point in the past, but for me this was a defining moment.
>
> Anyone want to buy a well used Ixus complete with a thick patina of dust?
>
> Anyway, in summer 2002 me, my then girlfriend, my OM10 and a 64 and a half
> Mustang hit the highway and toured 43 of the lower 48 in just over two
> months. And the damn OM10 died in the Smokey Mountains - the last picture
> it took was of the steam that rises over the mountains and gives them
their
> name.
>
> So when we reached New Orleans it was time for a new camera. The
girlfriend
> had a C*n*n Rebel and loved it, and I have to say I was taken by its light
> weight, the AF and the built in flash. So, in a toss-up between an OM2000
> and a N*k*n N65 (that's an F65 back home), the latter won. And from what
> I've read of the OM2000 since, I don't think that was too bad a
decision...
>
> But back in Blighty I decided that I wasn't going to let the OM10 slip
away
> quite so easily...as a teenager I lusted over the shiny OM10s in the pages
> of my mum's home shopping catalogue (when I wasn't lusting over the
women's
> underwear pages, of course). Alas, Japanese technology was beyond the
reach
> of a poor Belfast family, so my first SLR was a Zenit 11 (and you can
learn
> a lot from a Russian camera when you're young enough to be able to carry
> it...).
>
> So, the OM10 being jammed and new batteries having no effect, I took off
the
> bottom plate and (sorry camera techs) sprayed a little WD40 into its
> innards. A miracle...the OM10 was back in action, and the N65 began to
> gather dust.
>
> Then, inevitably, I discovered THAT auction site, and the collection began
> to grow...
>
> The current score is an OM2n, an OM2SP, an OM40 and an OM1 (which you lot
> helped me replace the prism in), a couple of 50 F1.8s, a couple of 35-70
> f4s, a 75-150 f4 and a 135 f3.5.
>
> Combined with a T20 and a T32, I feel I have most of the bases covered
for,
> as I said, snapping...but a sense of OM adventure is upon me.
>
> So, the obligatory question which gives these posts their point - what
would
> list members suggest I acquire next? The budget, while not bottomless, is
> flexible within the normal bounds of those of us with bills to pay and no
> trust fund to rely on.
>
> Dear me - I wrote a book. Many thanks for reading this far...
>
> Mike
>
> PS I actually liked the car threads, and this is being typed on a
Macintosh
> Powerbook G3 Pismo...oooh, controversial...
>
>
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