I have e-mailed Clay at his personal e-mail address. If he has passed the
camera on I'll pass along the information.
Charlie
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Michael Collins <
MRC.OlympusList@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ah, yes, the Olympus Odyssey. Quite an odyssey it's been to date, too. But
> let us not forget that it took Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca. Or
> twenty, if you include the Trojan War itself in the count.
>
> I had taken an informal role in hustling the camera from one participant to
> the next while Jeff Keller was otherwise occupied, and had some success but
> ran out of mental energy to do this last year.
>
> The last known location of the non-North American camera is with Andreas
> Pirner in Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Germany, in June of 2009.
>
> The last known location of the North American camera is with Clay Nichols
> in
> Lexington SC, in September of 2009.
>
> Now that this is back on the radar, I will make another attempt to contact
> each of them and (if successful) have the cameras passed along - there is a
> waiting list of four or five, as I recall.
>
> Brian, you can send me the images to put on the Web site. If I have a burst
> of energy, I'll actually pull the galleries from Jeff's site into my
> temporary site, so that everything is available in one place. The original
> site is at
>
> <http://www.reflective-moment.com/olympus-odyssey> [Galleries 1, 2, and
> 3]
>
> and my supplement is at
>
> <http://www.ownvolition.com/olympus-odyssey/gallery_chrome_2.htm>
>
> The rules? Roughly these:
>
> Images:
> - choose four images
> - scan them [or you could get JPEGs when you have them processed]
> - resample/resize the images to 72dpi and 800 pixels on the long side
> for horizontal, 580px tall if vertical
> - save the images in the .jpg format
> - email them to <jeffreyrkeller@xxxxxxxxx> copy <MRC.OO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> - send a description of each image in the body of the email -
> information such as the image's title, lens, film, aperture,
> shutter speed, location, etc. and a little story about the image.
>
> E.g.,
> Title: Oil-soaked Birds
> Photo Location: Upper Loon Lake near Premier Ed Stelmach's summer home
> Exposure: not recorded, probably around 1/60
> Lens: Zuiko 18mm f3.5 @ f5.6
> Film: Kodak T400cn
> Technical Details: Photo CD from the local photo lab
> Comments: Looking across the pond, wishing for a Liberal government.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
>
> On 7/4/10 6:05 PM, Brian Swale wrote:
>
> > Piers wrote
> >
> >> You have reminded
> >> me that I have a set of Olympus Odyssey images to upload!
> >
> > What's the latest information on this great idea which has had (that I've
> > seen) no publicity for quite a while?
> >
> > Brian Swale.
>
>
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