Well done.
John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
21 South Lane, Huntington, NY 11743
631-424-2121 | omtech@xxxxxxxxx
www.zuiko.com
Factory Trained OM Service since 1977
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Sharp" <jsharp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 11:36 PM
Subject: [OM] Another young photographer, stunned by the quality of old OM
gear...
> Read on for a long winded story that illustrates once again how good our
> old OM's are to this day -
>
> I'm helping out at the local jr. college with a basic photography
> course. I taught computer applications and servicing there a few years
> ago so I have an in, and offered to help out one of the photography
> instructors in exchange for some basic training in the use of the
> darkroom. In all the years I've been taking pictures, I had never
> learned any darkroom technique. A friend giving me an old Omega B-22XL,
> a timer, safelights, etc. finally motivated me to learn and to start
> shooting B&W again.
>
> The instructor I'm helping is mid 30's and has worked as a professional
> photographer for about 10 years at a few different jobs. He's worked
> with all kinds of gear, view and field cameras, medium format equipment
> plus the D100 and D2X. And he personally owns a lot of older Nikon
> Manual focus stuff, plus a Rollei I've seen and who knows what else. But
> he's never even handled any Olympus gear and the first night of class I
> got a sort of dismissive comment from him when I told him I was going
> to be using an old OM-4 to photograph things for the class.
>
> I took an 8 X 10 enlargement in tonight to show him that I'd made at
> home this weekend. Shot the previous weekend with my OM-4, a Zuiko 35-70
> F/3.5-4.5, and HP-5+ at 200 ISO. Just a simple shot of some railroad
> rail, some ties with ballast around them, and a bent spike. But with a
> little work it came out pretty nice, and you could just about feel the
> splinters in the ties and taste the rust on the rail.
>
> I show it to the instructor. He kept going back to it and said a few
> times, "that's just wrong" or "something is just wrong with this." When
> I finally asked him what he was saying, his comment was - "It's surreal
> it's so sharp. It's like it was enhanced in Photoshop or something..."
> and he had this stunned look on his face and was shaking his head.
>
> Ha! Welcome to 1990.
>
> All I could say was "The Olympus glass was good and the cameras were
> wonderful. You've missed out if you've never used one." I didn't bother
> to tell him that probably wasn't the best piece of OM glass I could have
> used for that shot. It was just on the camera at the time. I just may
> offer to let him use my OM-2N for while...
>
>
>
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