Oh, I don't know about that. $25 is pretty cheap. Anybody that didn't want to
participate didn't have to.
Given that this is really an Olympus OM list at heart, I'd think it somewhat
sacreligous to send anything except an OM body. Sending a Stylus Epic would
certainly be easier, but somewhat less pure in my mind.
Skip
----- Original Message ---------------
Subject: [OM] Re: Sending an Olympus on a world trip
From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:38:37 +1100
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
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>International mailing costs would cripple anything but a Stylus/mju!
>People will tend not to want to join a ring that will cost them at
>least $25 to participate.
>AndrewF
>
>On 18/03/2005, at 11:38 AM, Moose wrote:
>>>
>> Although the list often encompasses may things non Oly and clearly
>> includes many non-OM Oly threads, isn't it at the core an OM list? I'd
>> vote for an OM-1, the original OM. It could be sent about with a 50/1.8
>> bodycap, with participants invited to use it and/or any OM lens they
>> have. I'd be happy to lend a body and lens. If it comes back eventually
>> as a world traveller, I can sit down and listen to the tales it has to
>> tell. If not, that's ok too, I'd just hope that the tale of its loss
>> turns out to be interesting. Batteries shouldn't be a problem, they
>> last
>> forever in an OM-1.
>
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