Dadburn it! I spent several hours Friday pawnshopping and all I wound up with
to show for it was a single OM back lens cap (50 cents, but certainly not a
DFGSS!)
Gary Edwards
Olaf Greve wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Well, well, well, not only did I become uncle for the 2nd time a few hours
> ago, but the last three days or so have also been very interesting for me
> Oly-wise!
>
> First off: I "pulled a Doris" two days ago by obtaining a T20 (incl.
> shipping) for some $23! It'll be a week or so before I will actually have
> the flash, but I don't foresee any issues...
>
> Then, today I visited Jaap Korten, for fine-tuning the website I'm making
> for him. The name Jaap may still be unfamiliar to many of you, but not quite
> so to people like Frank van Lindert, as Jaap has a tremendously big Oly
> collection, and he also sells lots of very interesting gear.
>
> So, today alone I have seen more Oly gear than can probably be found in the
> Oly-headquarters together! :) Jaap has some really cool stuff, like e.g. 1
> of the 25 OM-1 Gold(!) editions, this is really a beauty, and it also has a
> gold-mount 50/1.4 mounted on it. Then of course there's an M-1, incl.
> matching M-system 50/1.8 and 135/3.5 (and a box for an M-system bellows),
> but... Jaap's OM collection is not the most special of his Oly collections,
> for his Pen collection by far outranks his OM collection. Also, he has a lot
> of the really old cameras (from the years directly after WWII), and he has
> quite a lot of FTL stuff, including a bellows for it. Even though I'm not an
> Oly collector it was highly interesting to see all this stuff together ---
> think of it as an Oly museum!
>
> Then, I made use of the possibility to handle some of the more exotic
> lenses. So I now know what the world looks like when seen @ 1000mm and also
> when seen @ 8mm! I also made sure to take a look through the 250/2, which is
> amazingly bright (quite to the contrary of the 1000/11, which even with a
> 2-4 gave a very dark viewfinder image!). Not only did I try the 8/2.8, but
> also the 16/3.5. Somehow when looking through the 16/3.5 I didn't really get
> the feeling I was actually looking through a fisheye - until I saw my
> fingers in the viewfinder when focusing, when I took a closer look at the
> bottom of the viewfinder I could clearly see my toes too! :))) Cool stuff,
> and it's fun to have handled these lenses at least once.
>
> More controversy? Well, he showed me an article which treats the subject of
> black lenses vs. white lenses. Hah! We've covered that too, you say? Well,
> yes, but this article has a picture showing a _white_ OM-3 and mounted on it
> is _white_ 100/2! These items, along with some other telephoto lenses (of
> which the focal lengths were not mentioned in the article) had been customly
> made for the author of the article. Jaap is going to give me a copy of the
> article, which should make for an interesting read, as it also shows some
> graphs depicting the differences in heat-build-up in one of the white lenses
> vs. the black one (of the same focal length).
>
> Finally, to round off an already good-Oly day, I got a good deal on a TTL
> Auto Connector T20, a TTL Auto Multi Connector, a TTL Auto Cord T 0.6m, and
> a 2-13 focusing screen. So, for the improvised studio set-up I want to build
> (using 3 T-flashes) I now only need to find one more T-flash (preferrably a
> T32) and some of the 2m and/or 5m TTL Auto Cords. Does any of you happen to
> have some of these cables lying around for a good price (I guess not, as I
> noticed some inquiries about stuff like this going over the list over the
> last few days)?
>
> Hmmm, I think we should invent a new word for days like these, how about
> "Olygasm"?!? No this, will _NOT_ become the name of the new themed events!!!
> ;)))
>
> Cheers all, and it's time to finally get to bed --- 3 a.m. over here...
> Olafo
>
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