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Re: [OM] The Olympus brand & 35 mm equivalency issue...

Subject: Re: [OM] The Olympus brand & 35 mm equivalency issue...
From: Gene Wilburn <gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:25:44 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [OM] The Olympus brand & 35 mm equivalency issue...

> And now for a bit of heresy:  I say the old Takumar 50/1.8 is
> better than the Zuiko 50/1.8.  So there.

I had (and still have) a Honeywell Pentax H1a. The mirror returns, but
there's no meter. The Takumar that came with that one was 55/1.8, not
50/1.8. Was there an earlier 50/1.8? I later added a 50/1.4. The camera is
not much bigger than an OM-1 but somewhat heavier. I'd sold it to my
brother-in-law in the 70's and he just gave it back this year because it's
been in his closet for 20 years and he'd rather shoot digital. Took it for
a spin a while back and it's still a good basic camera. The Takumar 50/1.4
is definitely a better lens, IMO, than the 50/1.8 Zuiko.

Gene
(reading from digest)


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