Well, welcome to both of you.
You will both have seen that, numerically, North Americans dominate the
List, but be assured that there is a sizeable and voluble (sometimes
anyway) international community. Every now and then we get together in
the UK as well as other places and only in August Bill Barber visited
London and a group of the Brits went to meet him there.
The only snag with your being on A*L is that you will almost invariably
post in rich text format or html; this bulks out the Digest form and
rather wastes bandwidth anyway. On my email client (Mail on a Mac)
your post looks impossibly small (so does Bill Barber's and, I think,
George's sometimes). So _I_ should prefer you to post in plain text,
but it is only for my convenience... ;-)
Well done with your latest acquisition; however, you should be aware
that this is a List of Enablers. Our job is to increase the size of
your "collection" of Zuikos and OMs as quickly as possible. I should
like to start the ball rolling by offering to either you or Gordon my
lovely 50-250/5.
Anyone who is interested, please contact me directly.
Cheers
Chris
On 30 Dec 2003 , at 23:21, Rolftruck@xxxxxxx wrote:
Hi all -- I've been lurking for a couple of weeks, having just
succumbed to a 30-year-old wish to own an OM-1. I've been a Nikon user
(plus Mamiya TLR and more recently a Leica M) all that time and have
had no reason to complain. But now that I own my first OM-1, and as of
last night a Zuiko 24 2.8, I think I've been missing something. A lot,
actually. It's a truly beautiful camera and I'm anxious to give it a
proper workout. A busy holiday season has conspired against a lot of
picture-taking, but roll #1 using just the 50 1.8 looked good.
I've already learned a lot from folks on this list, and I've also been
amused, of course. There's a distinct character to this crowd, as
there is in much different ways for the people on the various Leica
and Nikon lists. If I were more adept at the psychology of it all, I
might try to define those distinctions.
This post is also by way of an experiment, namely to see if it
actually goes through to the list. As an AOL user I've seen
difficulties along these lines with some lists. Seems that AOL isn't
entirely welcome.
Assuming it does get through, I thank you all for what I've learned so
far and in advance for what I have yet to understand about Olympus.
Happy new year too!
Rolf Lockwood
Toronto, Canada
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C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
ftog at threeshoes.co.uk
http://www.threeshoes.co.uk
http://homepage.mac.com/zuiko
... a nascent photo library.
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