On 20 May 1998, Stuart Goggin wrote:
> I have had two zuiko's on a nice quite dark shelf for months now, and still
> nothing!!! How have you been able to get them to breed..... Maybe I need
> to give them some of that Viagra stuff ;-))))> Stuart
Actually, money seems to do the trick. I was a little flip in my
answer to the question of why several systems. I started with N*k*n
because I loved the lenses, and the stuff really is sturdy. The C*n*n
detour (I've sold most of it off, save for two bodies and 3 lenses)
because I lucked into a 300/6.3 Fluorite, and had no bodies to use it on.
The OMs I bought because of their petite size and weight, as well as the
images I kept seeing that were made with Zuikos, and it was the
lenses that came to endear me to the system. It's not just the SLRs,
either. As many list members know, I love the XAs, and believe them, gram
for gram, to be one of the best image-making machines ever made. Even my
OM Stylus, which I consider far inferior to the XAs, has survived hundreds
of mountain bike rides dangling from my neck (a few falls) and many canoe
trips.
I believe each photographer should match the hardware and software
(film, papers, developers, etc) to one's vision and usage.
This is a subjective and totally personal decision, and can only be
arrived at after a photographer has come to know themselves through
experience. In 35mm I also owned Konica, Pentax, Minolta, Yashica (No
Contax yet!) etc. I did this very cheaply, when I realized that college
students at a nearby university would sell their cameras after taking
the first Photo class. I placed (free) ads on the bulletin boards around
campus stating that I would buy cameras and lenses for cash. Later, I
would sell the stuff through Shutterbug or the local paper, sometimes back
to another student.
*= Doris Fang =*
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