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Subject: [OM] Re: OT How many cameras? WAS Re: How old were you? (WAS:whippersnappers)
From: "Gordon J. Ross" <gordross@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:15:44 -0700
Jim:

It appears that you are short, there are at least 9 weeks each year that you
will have to re-use one of the cameras!

Gord

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Brokaw" <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 9:34 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: OT How many cameras? WAS Re: How old were you?
(WAS:whippersnappers)


> on 2/23/04 2:47 PM, Rob Harrison at robhar@xxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Maybe someone could turn this into a chart too....but to help me
> > explain to my lovely wife that my need for another camera body and a
> > few more lenses is _totally_ reasonable...
> >
> > ? How many SLR and interchangeable lens rangefinder camera bodies do
> > you own?
> >
> > ? How many lenses?
> >
> > ? How many "other" cameras (compact, fixed lens rangefinder, digital,
> > medium format folders, etc)?
> >
> > I'll start:
>
> Tell your wife about me...
>
> I ran some little filters on my spreadsheet of 'OMoney spending' (all
> photo-related items, actually) and found:
>
> 175 items matching both "camera" and "Olympus" of which
> 32 appear to be OM bodies of some sort, the rest IS, XA, Infinity, Pen,
> etc...
>
> 43 items matching "lens" and "Olympus", not all of which are for OM
cameras,
> several for Pen F/FT, others auxiliarys for IS series, etc. This wouldn't
> include non-Olympus brand for OM, such as Vivitar Series 1, Celestron,
> Tokina, etc...
>
> 115 items matching just "lens" which could be for Canon, Nikon, Minolta,
> Aires, Leica, Braun, Petri, Tokina, Tamron, Sigma, and a few others nobody
> ever heard of...
>
> I have a couple 2-1/4 folders, a few Minox's (IIIs, B, C versions), a
couple
> of Rolleiflex/cord TLR's, a bunch of half-frame by Canon and Fujica. Some
of
> these are fixed-lens rangefinders.
>
> Note that a lot of these are 'for repair' which I didn't pay too much for,
> intending them to support my future hobby of camera repair, which I will
> start to do someday in earnest...
>
> Its not too many, its not obsessive, and I have it perfectly under
control.
> Really. Really I do. I can stop anytime I want. Yes Indeed!
>
> Your wife should be relieved now... <g>
> -- 
>
> Jim Brokaw
> OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
>
>
> No wonder there's no money left...!
>
>
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