At 23:14 13/05/99 -0400, John H wrote:
>The fancy outer coverings for OM-1 through 2N were offered in the early 80s
>and quickly abandoned because some (all ) of them were real animal skin and
>which caused outrage amongst animal rights groups.
>
A pretty strange reaction when you consider that film itself uses animal
products!
Richard
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