Greetings fellow Zuikoholics. I've been reading the digest version of the list
for about 3 months now and I guess it's time to introduce myself. I just read
Jim Terazawa's response to Frieder and learned that Jim is a native Japanese
living in Texas. Well, I'm a native Texan living in Japan (on the western edge
of the greater Tokyo area). I got started with Olympus OM system in 1980 when
my wife gave me a brand new OM-2n as a wedding present. I loved that camera
and I always got great pictures with it, but other than a T-32 flash and 28mm
lense I never acquired much in the way of a camera system. The sad part of the
story is that I lost my OM-2n on a train in Italy about 6 years ago. Instead
of buying another one, I bought a video camera and have been without a serious
35mm until January this year. It just hit me out of the blue that I had to
have another OM. I shopped around Tokyo, but the Japanese are still pretty
proud of their used OMs it seems and I ended up ordering an OM-2n from Cameta
in New York. Zuikoholism has struck and I want more! I'm going to Ginza
Monday and will look around some more (that's where I hear most of the used
camera stores are, but it is an expensive area).
My family thinks I'm obsessed (or possessed) and can't see why I spend so much
time reading these long OM emails and surfing the net looking for more
information and good deals on lenses, etc. By the way, I asked my Japanese
teacher how to pronounce Zuiko. I expected it to be zooeekoh, which if you say
it fast sounds like zweekoh. She said zweekoh is correct.
Got to run (with 5 kids, there is always something to do!)
Scott Ellison
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