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Re: [OM] RIP Yoshihisa Maitani

Subject: Re: [OM] RIP Yoshihisa Maitani
From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:40:09 +1000
> 
> I've been using an earlier masterpiece, the pen FV for
> two days now for a small project, loaded with portra 160.
> What a fine camera that is. The pen F series were my
> first encounter with a mirror-reflex and I think that may
> have caused my preference for portrait orientation in pictures.
> The joy of using something mechanic is incomparable
> to digital. There is a tactile quality in that camera I've yet
> to see in a digital (maybe the e-P1 has it, but I doubt it...
> the M8 might be a candidate, but is probably too big)
> I'm at frame 46 right now... 28 to go today in honour to
> Maitani :).
> 


Yeah, well perhaps he died of a broken heart after seeing what this
generation at Olympus did to his PEN concept.

...Wayne


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