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Subject: [OM] Canon woes (was Re: Selling out )
From: Skip Williams <om2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 11:18:43 -0400
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Walt,

I don't want to know the pro's name or paper, but I'd love to hear the gist of 
his reaction.  Could you share it offlist?

Skip


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Subject: [OM] Re: Selling out
   From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
   Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 15:02:54 +0000
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>The dawning of a new day, following lots of sobering advice (and time to sober 
>up), finds me crawfishing as fast as I can.  The OM gear is safe, at least for 
>the foreseeable future.  Big-time digital just ain't happening here right away.
>
>The notion to wait for the next iteration of the big C*n*n was forming in my 
>mind even as I wrote yesterday's post, and then it was reinforced by Winsor.  
>I'll do that for sure.  And I'll definitely take anything that exorbitantly 
>expensive for a test drive before making any sort of final decision.
>
>I got great advice and valuable opinion from all of you good folks.  Why 
>didn't I have a similarly knowledgeable group to consult a few years back when 
>a friend and I shoehorned a souped-up small block Chevy V-8 into a TR-6?  Talk 
>about a disaster!
>
>The real eye-opener and the clincher for me was an e-mail from a working pro, 
>a staff photographer for a major U.S. daily -- and I'm not talking about the 
>Hooterville Hollerer here, but a MAJOR daily.  Since the e-mail was off-list 
>and a private communication, I will mention neither his name nor paper.  He 
>may very well have good reason not to make his feelings known publicly.
>
>Suffice to say that he has hands-on experience with the very camera and lenses 
>about which I expressed my acquisitive intentions.  He was not enthusiastic, 
>to put it mildly.  If he feels inclined to share his observations with the 
>list, I'm sure you will all find it profoundly elucidating.  I hope he will, 
>but that's his decision.  In any event, I am most grateful to him for his 
>input.
>
>And besides, the more I thought about boxing up all my OM gear and driving if 
>off into the KEH sunset, the more reluctant I became.  Also, I've got over 130 
>rolls of film, not counting the 120 stuff, in the fridge.  What was I thinking?
>
>Thanks, gang!  I'm home again.
>
>Walt, and old dog with no new tricks
>
>
>--
>"Anything more than 500 yards from 
>the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
>Edward Weston
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