At 12:34 AM 1/16/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Fellow Olympians!
>
>I have received only 20 responses voting on my questions so far, but I
>understand that there are more than 100 members on this list. In order for
>our petition to be effective, the majority should send in their personal
>preferences. I know the last question might be hardest to answer, but
>please name only one feature. As far as that question is concerned,
>everyone is limited to one vote. One individual can buy more than one
>camera, which is fine.
>
>The questions are:
>
>1. Which one of the new OM bodies (OM reissues with possibly a few new
>features, one under $500, one ca. $700, and an OM-5 under $1500) would you
>buy in the next 2-5 years? Just one or two or all three? (You have to ask
>your own pocketbook and your buying habit.)
I would buy a reissued OM2 with spot metering and a quick metal shutter in
the 5 to 7 hd dollar range.
>
>2.Would you like to have an autofocusing OM-x? (Be honest. You don't need
>to be realistic here.)
Yes, but only if built on a Oly type metal body and designed to utilize
existing lenses.
>
>3. Would you be willing to have a somewhat larger OM body so that several
>new features may be accommodated?
A larger body only for an auto-focus rig to accomadate an internal
auto-focusing device. Any other changes would be updating existing features
and would not require more size.
>
>4. What is the single most important feature of the OM body that you would
>like to see retained? Please narrow your preferences down to the single
>feature. I will not count those votes with two items here.
The compactness.
>
>Before I send off anything, I will present the tally and my list of all the
>nice OM-x features presented. If anyone has his/her version of the opening
>statement for this petition, you can send it to me or to the list.
>
>Your ballot (?) does not need to be sent to the list; I can receive your
>e-mail ballot if you have a secret desire to own an autofocus OM-x or other
>unusual answers to the questions. I have created two mailboxes
>specifically for this project, one for wish lists and the other for your
>votes, so I am ready to receive a huge number.
>
>To those OM bargain-hunting Olympians! Even if your answer to the question
>1 is none, you may vote on the rest of the questions. If any of our OM
>dreams is realized, sooner or later you might get to buy one secondhand. I
>have seen a few used 3Tis and 35-80mm/2.8s advertised in Japanese photo
>magazines. It seems that it is much harder to spot a used 24mm/4.5 shift.
>I would suspect that once owned, the lens becomes permanently attached to a
>person.
>
>One last thing: I'll extend the deadline: 12:00 p.m.(noon) at your local
>time on Tuesday, the 20th of January, 1998, but please don't wait until the
>last minute.
>
>
>
>Tomoko Yamamoto
>Photographer, Composer, Soprano
>mailto:tomokoy@xxxxxxxxx
>http://www.charm.net/~tomokoy/
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