At 05:30 PM 8/25/99 +1000, you wrote:
> ...It was suggested by a sales person that a OM-1 ...
I cannot recommend the OM-1n enough. It doesn't have spot metering, but I
I still love my OM1 and use it all the time. I bought it many years ago
because it was 100% mechanical (battery for meter only), compact and
lightweight. One big plus was that the shutter speed dial was on the
front--making it a snap to adjust the shutter speed/f-stop without taking
the camera away from my eye. (I think the shutter speed on the OM2000 is on
the top.) Even competing with a 3Ti, my little OM1 still earns its space in
my camera bag. Don't worry about not having a spot meter in a camera that
only costs a hundred bucks--it's just a box to hold the lens. (Plus it is
pretty well proven that a meter doesn't make a master photographer.) Pile
your money in on the glass. Later you can buy a Pentax 1-degree digital
spot meter (used/checked and calibrated) and get tighter, more accurate
metering than OM's spots for less money than a OM3 or 4 body.
I don't miss having an auto-everything camera. For snapshots of people I
keep an Olympus (what else) P/S in the bag. When I have time to compose
and think about my pictures I want my other cameras. I've heard people like
me called "retro-grouch" because we want (and defend) our old, all manual,
"yes you have to focus", "I'm setting the shutter speed and aperture now",
"because I actually think about what I'm shooting" cameras. Now I don't
want to start a holy war--that was just supposed to be a retro-grouch
answering all the questions a p/s user asks about your "old" camera. (You
should hear them around large formats.) Now and again having an OM2 or 4
sure would be nice, but for the most part I have been very happy with
manual cameras for the past 20+ years.
So buy yourself an OM1(n) and join all of us who just need ONE more lens,
oh, and a new flash, and maybe a bigger camera bag, and hey, isn't that on
sale...
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