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Subject: [OM] Re: Well, I did it...
From: John Hermanson <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:11:31 -0400
I occasionally see a 3Ti for repair.  The owners always laugh when I ask 
if they want to sell.  I hope you find one, it is a gorgeous piece of 
engineering to say the least.
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Dawid Loubser wrote:
> I am in the process of selling my Canon EOS gear, I put them up for very
> good (for me, i.e. substantial) prices, and I seem to be getting them
> sold- have received a lot of interest in the past couple of hours,
> tomorrow three expensive lenses will probably sell.
> 
> Why? This damn OM system! I feel a big imbalance in my photographic
> technique between using my Mamiya / Linhof Technorama, and my Canon
> Digital Gear. And the OM body just feels "right" for the type of thing I
> do - more so than any other 35mm body I've used. I will miss the big ol'
> machine gun - and the Canon 1D MkIIN has, hands down, the most
> spectacular image quality of any 8MP camera.
> 
> In fact, I have been using my 1D MkIIN for snapshots more than anything
> else lately - which is just crazy! So, I figured, I am getting into B&W
> film with OM gear bigtime, and I will get a high-end P&S (e.g. Canon
> G9/G10) for snapshots / documenting stuff, such as my car restoration
> project.
> 
> Once I receive funds for the sold equipment this will fund the trip my
> OM gear will make to John for CLA (my OM-1n really should be smoother,
> and the meter is flakey, even though I do incident metering 90% of the
> time) as well as some serious expansion of my OM gear.
> 
> I am not even going to ask you if I am crazy: I guess I am doing this
> because I *can*, and because digital SLR will be cheaper and better when
> I get back to it in the future.
> 
> Somehow, after coming so close to losing my (and my beloved's) life with
> the attack in our home a week+ ago, I am a bit radical, and this is part
> of it. It's fun to try different things - as a hobbyist, I have that
> luxury. In the meantime, I am also going to spend more time with the
> ones I love, instead of processing RAW files.
> 
> (although I can see the Darkroom changing that :-)
> 
> For anybody who has read this far, does anybody have a 38mm f/2.8 Macro
> lens they want to sell? I am definitely going to pick up that
> auto-bellows I saw last week, and I will want some higher magnification
> than what the 90/2.0 provides on the bellows. I am sold on the fact that
> the 20/2.0 is maybe a bit extreme for the moment.
> 
> And lastly, I really do want an OM-3Ti some time in the future. For most
> things, I do see myself preferring the beautiful simplicity of the
> OM-1n, but the metering as well as the 1/2000th shutter speed are both
> very desirable to me for the type of photography I do (macro, and
> shallow DOF in daylight).
> 
> Is there anybody who is thinking of selling theirs, and what would the
> going rate be? I know how collectable these are, but they are also not
> unobtainable surely.
> 
> wishing you all a great day,
> Dawid
> 
> 

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