Your right, you should only have to meet the minimum requirements of
gear after you have been on this list for 6-8 months. Joining this list
with a OM-2n and 50/1.8 is perfectly acceptable. But after 2 years, you
should be struggling to find a TTL multi-connector, a 50/1.4 with
SN>1,100,000 or an OM-3t or 24/shift if you have a rich budget. And by
then you should have already bagged several OM-4t's.
The exception to that requirement is to spend time actually taking
photographs rather than listening to the old farts on this list who
have nothing better to do than argue about silly analog audio gear, or
some such nonsense. (Since by now their feeble old ears can't hear
correctly any way, what's the point?) And why are you interested in
old OM camera gear anyway, the E-1 is out, this list should be
diminishing...
and by the way, welcome...
Wayne - just trance channelling missing entities for the list. I'll be back
to normal after some sleep.
At 11:02 PM 6/28/2004, you wrote:
>Wayne wrote:
>>Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the minimum requirement
>>for anyone to be on this list was at least 5 OM bodies and to have
>>either a complete set or 2 each of the lenses in the 24-100mm range,
>>except for the 90/2, 50/2 or 50/1.2, of which you have to have one of
>>them or the equivalent Tamron or Vivitar macro, and also excepting the
>>multitude of 50mm varieties. And at least one telephoto above 100mm
>>(excluding the 500mm mirror lens and 135/3.5, while the 135/2.8 is OK
>>but minimal and also including a Tamron 80-200mm zoom or 300/2.8).
>>Those with an 8mm, 16mm, 18mm, 21/2 or either shift lenses do not have
>>to meet the 24-100mm lens requirement.
>
>Dear god, this reads like something out of the IRS tax code.
>
>Anyway, rather than absolute quantities of OM gear owned, I think
>there needs to be a special allowance for *percentage change* over a
>given time. When I joined the list I owned a 2N a T20, and 3 lenses.
>In the seven months since, I've increased that by approximately 150%.
>And I'm still thinking about an additional 1N and a 50/3.5 macro. . .
>
>Welcome, JM!
>
>cheers,
>
> -- Ross
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