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Re: [OM] Hoarding & Varimagni

Subject: Re: [OM] Hoarding & Varimagni
From: Dawid Loubser <dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:22:20 +0200
*NINE* varimagni finders and *58* lenses without ever using the stuff  
once?
Holy smokes, this is something else other than Zuikoholism... At last  
we're
addicted to using the stuff :-) Your wife might be right...

BTW, the use-case for the varimagni is not to "look through an OM  
camera"
it's to "take with an OM camera". You should try it sometime!

Dawid (shaking his head in disbelief, looking forward to seeing what  
lenses George has)


On 15 Jan 2011, at 10:44 PM, George Themelis wrote:

> Every time we are watching the show "Hoarding - Buried Alive" on TV,  
> my wife
> is giving me strange looks.  This is a show about people who  
> accumulate
> "stuff" pathologically, to the point that it is impossible to live  
> or even
> walk into their house.
>
> Somehow my wife thinks that I am one of these people. I don't know  
> where she
> got this idea.  It is only the basement that I have taken over. :)   
> (Oh, and
> the garage - we have to park our cars outside :) :))
>
> Out of curiosity I took a quick inventory of the Olympus OM stuff I
> accumulated in about 6 months in 2009.  I counted 32 camera bodies, 58
> lenses and various accessories.  Among these accessories are 9  
> Varimagnis.
> What was I thinking?  Well, I know what I was thinking. I love the
> appearance, simplicity and functionality of the OM system, and I was
> thinking that one day I will use all that stuff I was buying.
>
> How many pictures did I take with my newly acquired OM equipment?   
> Zero.
> The plan was to find a way to synchronize the camera bodies and  
> match the
> lenses for stereo photography.  This of course takes time, which is
> something I do not have much of.  In the meanwhile, the Fuji 3d  
> digital
> camera came among and I got started in digital 3d.  For a while, I  
> thought I
> would never have any use for the Olympus OM gear, but now the  
> thought that I
> can use some of that stuff with digital cameras makes me very happy.
>
> In the meanwhile, I am wondering what I can do with the 9  
> Varimagnis.  This
> is a beautifully engineered piece.  Is there a use for it, other  
> than use it
> to look through an Olympus OM camera?
>
> George
>
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