Dang Walt,
I'd spend the money on film. Or pizza. Or Beer.
Or, all of the above!
The last OM body I bought was a black OM-2n for $95, in nice condition. I
think of the current pricing of OM gear as the silver lining for the digital
revolution.
Bill Stanke
----- Original Message -----
From: <mak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 7:27 AM
Subject: [OM] OM77AF - To buy or not to buy? cheaper one here also OM3
>
> call Blue Moon Camera I think they have a mint OM 77 for far less they
also have an OM 3 ask for Zeb 503 978 0333
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sep 3, 2004 6:03 AM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: OM77AF - To buy or not to buy?
>
>
> Walt, it's the kind of question to which there is no answer, except for
the
> "If you had any doubts, you wouldn't have posed the question" type. So I
> guess you have decided, just maybe? But you can get the OM77 for $174.98,
> because I will contribute $0.02:
>
> The lenses for the AF/PF cameras do not sell. I see them at $100, and I
see
> them at $10, it makes no difference to their saleability. Which leads me
to
> conclude that there ain't many operating AF/PF bodies left (Granted, that
> may be because of miscalculations with the clearance in the middle of the
> railroad tracks - but I doubt it).
>
> The autofocus with built-in motor would seem to provide the remote
operation
> you are looking for, though I would prefer to go the route of a winder on
an
> OM-PC, which would be far less cash for pretty much the same facilities,
and
> interoperability with the rest of your kit. The OM-PC is a great camera
with
> dependable metering. Sure, there is no autofocus, but I doubt that I would
> want to rely on first generation autofocus to give desired results if I
> can't see those results in the viewfinder. Use zone focusing!
>
> $174.98 seems to me to be a generous price for the camera - make sure you
> haggle (as if I didn't know you would)!
>
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Walt Wayman
> Sent: 03 September 2004 14:35
> To: Oly List
> Subject: [OM] OM77AF - To buy or not to buy?
>
> I noticed again last week that the neighborhood camera shop still has, as
> they have had for a year or more, an OM77AF, with what I assume to be a
50mm
> AF lens. I know next to nothing about this camera beyond the fact it
> autofocues with certain lenses and works with the F280 flash. It looks to
> be in quite good condition, at least as near as I can tell without
handling
> it and from seeing in only through the display case glass.
>
> Question: At an asking price of $175, subject, I'm sure, to at least some
> reduction after a moderate amount of dickering, should I give it a go? I
> have only 9 bodies, all of the single digit persuasion, and 10 is such a
> nice round number. Besides, one never knows when one might get the notion
> to put a remotely operated camera in the middle of the railroad tracks,
for
> instance, or on the brush guard of the OM-4Runner, or up a tree by a
> woodpecker hole, or down into a suspected bear den, or in some as yet
> unthought of place too hazardous for the likes of a 1, 3, 4 or 4Ti.
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
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