This seems to have made your day and I'm very happy about that.
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Dawid Loubser wrote:
> On 06 May 2010, at 3:07 PM, John Hermanson wrote:
>
>> ONE quirk of this 3Ti. I had to replace the diopter adjustment knob,
>> and had to use one that does not have the white dot on it. Many /
>> most
>> new replacement parts for the 3Ti are now NLA.
>
>
> John, you need to halve your price because of this! What outrage!
>
> :-)
>
> No, really, I doubt if anybody would have ever noticed had you not
> mentioned it John. To add to Ken's mentioning of "keeping it in the
> family",
> it's also so good to "buy in the family".
>
> I must admit, I have been very very tempted to buy this new-in-box,
> with all documentation
> and accessories 3Ti on the 'bay for $2000 (item #250622973793, ends
> May 7, 2010). This
> was before John listed his (er... soon to be mine...) example.
>
> Nice as a 100% original, new body in box, with all correct accessories
> body would
> be (even at $600 more expensive) - there is something much more
> special about buying
> it from a knowledgeable, passionate, super-honest source that had also
> just given it
> a service. Somebody in this "family" of geeks that are excited by a
> range of small
> 35mm film cameras.
>
> 10-15 years is not such a long time, but I am sure a body sitting in a
> box that long wouldn't
> actually operate nearly as nicely as a freshly tuned-up one. Also, if
> my plans work out,
> I may be subjecting it to some extreme (Arctic) cold in the next year
> or so, and I
> figured a tuned 3Ti stands a much better chance.
>
> John, you have made me happier than a new-in-box one could ever have,
> since I have
> seen what a mechanical body is like after it's passed through your hands
> (I bought Jim Couch's Black-lizard-skin OM-1, serviced by you in 2007,
> silky-smooth)
>
> Ken... Ken... Ken... (Norton, in case anybody is wondering).
> I understand you have often been pressured or "conditioned" by this
> list into
> exercising restraint when writing about the 3Ti.
>
> Well dude, I am sure you will now have a fellow fanatic (who will have
> difficulty in shutting up)
> on your side, preaching alongside you, if the 3Ti is even half of what
> it's cracked up to be :-)
>
> Since I love my OM-1(s) so much, one may ask why am I crazy enough to
> spend good money on an
> OM-3Ti? Up until fairly recently, I have been viewing 35mm as merely a
> toy format, something I
> originally took up to help me with my film technique, to be applied to
> medium format.
>
> I have come to realise that it's quite unlikely for me to regularly
> make darkroom prints larger
> than 12x16in - it's my "sweet spot". After making a couple of prints
> (some of them shot on Pan F,
> with the 90/2.0 Macro and 250/2.0) at that size, I have realised that
> at typical viewing distance,
> it's very hard to distinguish between 35mm and medium format. Such a
> print made from a 6x7cm negative
> can almost be examined under a microscope, whereas 35mm is clearly
> becoming stretched, requiring careful
> technique, but it's close enough on fine-grained film.
>
> So, I hate to admit it, but for "daily use" 35mm has won. And there
> will be no digital camera in my near
> future, that's just not the direction this hobby of mine has taken.
> And quite simply, I've taken 10x as
> many "keepers" with my OM egar, as what I have with my medium format
> gear (wonderful beasts as they are).
>
> So for travel / general use, I have settled on my OM kit, and the
> Linhof 6x17cm for occasional
> really spectacular, wide images (of which I shoot about 1 per month :-).
>
> As I will so seriously be using the OM system for the foreseeable
> future, I may as well spend what one
> could spend on a silly little Micro FourThirds body and two lenses,
> and get me the "best" OM body for
> my needs.
>
> This 3Ti will be in serious use, not at all in a cabinet. It's perhaps
> just as well I didn't prevent
> a "cabinet collector" / "investment buyer" (yes, a 3Ti is clearly an
> appreciating investment) from
> buying the new-in-box eBay sample, which will be worth $3000 or $4000
> in another decade I am sure.
>
> Lastly, with a 3Ti, there will be no rangefinder camera in my future
> (something I have been thinking about).
> Even though they have so many truly appealing aspects, my favourite
> lenses (24mm F2, 90mm F2, 250mm F2),
> and the ways in which I use them, have no equivalent in rangefinder-
> land.
>
> In fact, I would have been happy just continuing to use the marvelous
> OM-1, but the 3Ti has a couple
> of features that I feel will improve my image-making process. And it's
> so darn sexy!
>
> Anyway, what a bunch of random ramblings... but I guess this is the
> right list for that sort of thing.
>
> all the best to y'all, from an (extremely) rainy South Africa
> Dawid
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