I'll have to get out my replacement 50 1.8 M System name rings..........
John
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----- Original Message -----
From: Hans van Veluwen <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Olympus M-1
> : >>Gary S. wrote:
> : >>>> Recently, I got lucky and acquired a nice Olympus M-1 body.
> : >>
> : I wrote:
> : >>So you managed to finally figure out how to scratch out the "O"
> : >>off your OM-1?
> :
> : Gary wrote:
> : >Argh!!! My budding career as a career OM criminal is about to
> : >be nipped in the bud... :-) :-)
> :
> : I remember a post from a few weeks back where you were threatening to
de-O
> : the OM-1. Thought you could get away with it, eh?
>
> I don't want to put any oil on the fire or intervene in the
Schloss<->Norton
> e-barbs, but I'm currently looking at a picture in the Dutch Camera
Magazine
> 3/95 that clearly shows an M-System lens that has been 'retouched'.
> And I don't mean the picture, but the lens: the 'M-' part has been
blackened
> or darkened or scratched (? it's a B&W picture) so that it reads 'OLYMPUS
> SYSTEM F.ZUIKO' (it's a 50/1.8 - what else?). This is probably the way
> Olympus sold the M lenses after the argument with Leica?
> Hint, hint, twinkle, twinkle: want to sell a 'rare' lenses on e-Bay and
get
> rich? Black paint and 50/1.8's are cheap.
>
> Hans (prisoner nr. 665) V.
>
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