I enlarged the photo and I reckon it does have a MD badge on it, so maybe
he's right...
Andrew McPhee
At 09:22 AM 3/01/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>Andrew McPhee wrote:
>
> >> Congratulations to Zuiko7 (I believe a list member) who just won a
> >> never used/new in box OM1 eBay #3863054101.
> >
> > Lucky person, I'm jealous! There can't be many genuine "mint"
>examples
> > like that left...
>
>There's something very fishy about it.
>
>The vendor says "I purchased the camera in 1987 (new, we can assume,
>since he says it's never been used -- how else could he know if he
>didn't buy it new?).
>Yet the OM-1 was only made until 1979. And I suspect the vast majority
>post-74 were MD versions (which this isn't).
>So there's at least 8 years of this camera's life that aren't accounted
>for, and it may well be as many as 13 years.
>
>Hmmmmmm.......
>
>Simon
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