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Re: [OM] a paean to the OM cameras (the good ones, anyway)

Subject: Re: [OM] a paean to the OM cameras (the good ones, anyway)
From: Dawid Loubser <dawid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:06:04 +0200
Dude, you are totally preaching to the converted... Tell us something  
we don't know :-)


On 14 Aug 2011, at 5:15 PM, William Sommerwerck wrote:

> When the M-1 was introduced almost 40 years ago, Bob Schwalberg (I  
> think)
> suggested it was small because the Japanese have small hands. (I  
> wonder if
> he could get away saying such a thing today.) But when he and Maitani
> pressed palms, it was obvious their hands were the same size.
>
> Schwalberg quite missed the obvious. The Japanese adore the Leica,  
> but the
> Leicaflex failed to match the compactness and elegance of the M-series
> rangefinders. The M-1 was intended to be the SLR equivalent of a  
> rangefinder
> Leica.
>
> In an era where professional 35mm SLRs had swollen to Brobdingnagian
> proportions, the M-1 actually looked like a camera for a miniature- 
> film
> format. (It is, overall, smaller and lighter than the average $100
> auto-exposure rangefinder camera popular at the time.) I have to  
> laugh when
> Olympus claims that the Four-Thirds system permits smaller cameras and
> lenses. Smaller than what? Four-Thirds bodies are huge for cameras  
> with a
> "sub-miniature" format (13x17.3mm). The lenses are even more  
> oversized (and
> overpriced).
>
> The difference is particularly egregious when you set an OM camera  
> next to a
> full-frame DSLR, such as the Canon 5D2. Good grief! The 5D2 is a lot  
> of good
> things, but "elegant" it is not.
>
> Whether you take pictures with your OM camera is one thing. But  
> keeping them
> in good cosmetic and working order is worthwhile, because people  
> need to be
> reminded that "latest is (not always) greatest". I hope someday  
> someone will
> produce a full-frame DSLR "comparable" in size to an OM body. But  
> I'm not
> holding my breath.
>
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