Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 21:13:39 -0500
From: Ken Norton <image66@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] Today's wedding shoot
I did a wedding shoot with another photographer today. I used the
company's standard fare Canon A2 getup. In clarification to what I wrote
about a while back, the EOS body aggrivates my carpel-tunnel. I figured it
out today: The EOS body is thicker which makes my hand grip around a
larger area. The Nikon and my OM w/winder has a much smaller grip. My
wife suggested that I start wearing a wrap on my wrist whenever I need to
use the EOS camera. Good idea, I think.
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Well as some of you know I am going to a far off land and have been looking
at other camera systems to find the best travel combo...
I tried a Nikon N90 and like Ken N. have found the bodies of some of these
Canon adn Nikon "superbricks" very uncomfortable and unnatural. I settled on
the N70 because it is a little smaller and feels better - but for some
strange reason has no depth of field preview. Even this beast weights more
than om4t, om2n and 3 lenses!
So now comes the deadline as to which to bring. N70 w/ 28 to 200 lens (has
built in flash with all the bells and whisles) or the OM set up - small,
light, excellent glass but with a far less sophisticated flash system - The
country will be very sunny, so I will be needing flash fill alot. The lenses
for the N70 weigh in pounds, the lenses for OM's weigh in a few ounces.
If I had a choice, and since the systems are not mutually exclusive, I'd
bring both systems for the obvious of each; but weight restrictions preclude
this.
BTW, I am going on an expedition to first to Loc Nes (which from Boston, MA
is not that remote) and then to the Transcaucus country of Armenia (a place
that I think can be called a 'far off and remote' destination. :-))
I won't be leaving for a few weeks, so I've decided to decide later on the
decision of to OM or not to OM.....
Cheers
Ken M
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