sje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Matthias Wilke wrote:
>
> >When I bought my first OM-2n fourteen years ago, a classmate also bought
> >a 35mm SLR. He told me, that he has asked the dealer about OM cameras and
> >that he was informed by the dealer that the OM-system is old fashioned.
>
> what is so *bad* about things being old-fashioned? Why is there this
> constant desire for the newest, the flashiest, the grandest, the fastest....
> and where does it get us? More stress, more debt, more jealousy, more
> crime, more road rage.... get my drift?
>
Thats funny. The OM2 was about as hi tech as it gets 14 years ago... In fact OMs
were very advanced during their times. Remember the OM4T's 1/2000 flash sync?
It took ages for any camera maker to beat it (in the 35mm world)...and know only
Minolta's very high end cameras do it.
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