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Subject: [OM] OM's in demand?
From: Willie Wonka <alienspecimen@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:50:26 -0700 (PDT)
Funny, I made a mental note last night to ask a similar question...:)
  I was looking at my OM1 and Kiev rangefinder last night and remembered how 
well both performed in below 0 deg.C conditions.  Keep this in mind for now.
  I bought my first OM (thats also my first camera) in 1996 after extensive 
research on cameras suitable for astrophotography.  Second place candidate were 
two Pentax cameras.  So I went on "that" website and did a search coz somehow I 
convinced myself that I need yet another camera....  I was stunned by the 
prices I saw.  They are higher from what they were a year ago.  Then I went and 
searched for OM cameras.  Not as high as the Pentax, but I see a definite 
increase.
  But what stunned me the most was the almost total absence of OM4(Ti).  I 
don't have a good grip on the market, as I was always a very casual and 
infrequent searcher, but this is very unusual.
  Boris
   
   
   
  Has anyone paid attention to the back cover of the last two KEH 
catalogs?  In big red type they proclaim that these are:
"KEH.com's MOST WANTED" and offer REWARDS for information leading to the 
the apprehension of, etc, etc.  The ads continue by listing 5 classes of 
equipment they're searching for.

Large format lenses
Hasselblad bodies
Canon Digital bodies & lenses
Nikon Digital bodies & lenses
Olympus & Pentax bodies

I find it interesting that the only MF 35mm film bodies they're actively 
pursuing are Olympus and Pentax.  Why are just OM's and Pentaxes in 
demand?  Size and weight?  And why just bodies?

Chuck Norcutt


       
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