Hello.
I'll send this to the list, as there may be people interested in the Swedish
photo-culture.
I have used Olympus Om for the passed 10 years. I started off with a OM-1
and four years ago I bought a 4Ti, a nice camera. A couple of weeks ago I
purchased a 2SP to a very very good price.
In Sweden there is quite a lot of Olympus-equipment. Canon, Nikon, Minolta
and Pentax are the most common once though. Olympus is considered an
amature-brand, with not as high quality in the lenses as the mentioned
brands. There is no real demand for Olympus-things, but despite this, there
are very high prices for used equipment in retailers.
If you saw a lot of Oly cameras in Sweden, I'd be very surprised. Sweden is
kind of a high tech country. No manual focus is ever discussed when buying a
new camera. Seeing a lot of Oly may be because of a lot of amatures keep
their Oly cameras. There are no demand for used equipment. Still there are
very high prices on used equiment. (May be a connection there... :-) ).
I can also see another reason for a lot of OM:s. The Swedes are an
intelligent people, that appriciate quality in the stuff they use.
Why I like Olympus?
I have never used any other equipment for a longer period. So it is not for
te light weight. It's a combination of different things:
1. Reliability. I can bring my 4Ti out in the rain, taking shots, and still
knowing that the images will end up as I want them. I can bring my equipment
to a dusty motorevent and still knowing that the winder will make that good
ol' sound as I press the button.
2. Manual control. There aren't a lot of often meaningless functions and
buttons on it. With a simple turn I get total control.
3. I can use Oly that was made a quater of a century ago.
Well. That's a few thoughts from Sweden. Hope I could spred some light.
Kind regards
Tobias Andersson
Halmstad in Sweden.
From: Wolfgang Theissen <wtheissen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Questions to OM - Users in sweden!
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 22:43:09 +0200
Hi to our swedish section,
during this summer I spent my holidays in sweden near the Siljan - Lake.
What I was very astonished about was that I saw many people using good old
oly stuff OM-1, OM-2, OM77 and so on. When running around here in Germany I
sometimes feel like beeing overaged with my oly-stuff (I assume most people
like plastics;-). Are the swedish people not as trendy as the people here
in germany or do they just like to stay with good things?
Wolfgang
PS.: Is far as I remember we have someone from Kolmarden - which I visited
a couple of years ago - here on the list. I would like to answer him
offlist.
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Wolfgang Theissen
Tinkhofstraße 63
D-45731 Waltrop
Germany
email: wtheissen@xxxxxxxxxx
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