At 04:44 PM 11/15/1999 +1100, Frank Ernens wrote:
>Dave Bulger wrote
>
>> My take on it is that a body's job is to meter exposure and expose the
film
>> - - duties that just about all of the bodies and
>> brands available today will do satisfactorily.
>
>There speaks a man who has obviously never used a *really* crappy
>body. Let me spell it out: a really bad body will make accurate
>focussing impossible due to mirror, screen and/or film gate
>misalignment, will chew up the film, will have confusing controls,
>will lack a depth of field preview, will have a dim viewfinder even if
>you live on carrots, will expose wrongly, will have sharp edges
>that cut your fingers, will be heavy to carry, will smell funny,
>will leak light, will show only 900f the image area, and will
>otherwise make your life miserable. A modern crappy body adds
>fiddly buttons, patronizing beeps and chirps, a propensity to
>decide for itself what the picture should look like, knobs
>that fall off, insane flashing displays, trapdoor modes, a
>limited-life plastic mount, a voracious appetite for expensive and
>hard-to-find batteries, a loud whining motor drive, a fixed matte
>focussing screen, and a visual design done by Timothy Leary's
>schizophrenic dog.
You're ranting (but entertainingly). This may bore you, but the OM2000 is
none of these things. I can use it alongside my OM-2S and OM-4T with
complete confidence that the results will be indistinguishable. In fact I
get more losers with the OM-4T (but mainly because I keep trying to do a
better job with multispot than the camera can already do with
center-weighted averaging).
I realize that you did not specifically indict the OM2000 as a "crappy"
camera. But the informal logic of "I had a bad Cosina experience, therefore
the OM2000 is a bad camera" would be an easy but incorrect inference. So
far as I can tell at least.
I look forward to seeing how it does in the coming cold, cold, cold ...
Joel Wilcox
Iowa City, Iowa USA
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