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

Subject: Re: [OM] The Olympus brand & 35 mm equivalency issue...
From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:59:30 -0400
My bad.  I made one of my rare -- stop laughing -- typos.  I meant 
the Takumar 50/1.4.  I never had the 55/1.8.

Walt

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Gene Wilburn <gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:  Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:25:44 -0400 (EDT)

>
>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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