Joan,
Beautiful pictures! I've been wanting to get out there myself, but have not
been able to. I use an OM2 and an OM2n myself. I started out with an old
Honeywell Pentax Spotmatic, and when the lightmeter when sour and the shutter
started sticking, I thought to myself...my, I sure would like one of them fancy
Nikons. Well, that 6006 took wonderful pictures, but I found myself getting
really stupid. I forgot how work a camera. I longed for that old manual
camera where I could do all the settings without running through an lcd screen
and little hard to reach knobs and buttons. I took the Nikon to a few camera
shows trying to get something for it, I was only hoping for an F1. bewildered
at the offers I recieved, I went home with a sunken heart. Well, to my
surprise, shortly after, I inherited the OM2 and 2N from my grandfather and
gave the 6006 to my little sister to use as a point and shoot camera! She
likes it and is even learning how to use it in other than the full auto mode.
Now, I can't say that I would ever have even tried an olympus if these
events had not occured. I took the pair and an assortment of lenses on
vacation with me to see if I liked them. they were tiny in my huge stiff
carpal tunnel syndrome hands and felt so awkward. But, as I began to get used
to them, I grew to like them more and more. A year later, I have found them
to be the most wonderful cameras I have used. I wouldnt trade them for the
world. Light, small, all the controls have fallen right into place and seem
more natural to me than any other camera I have used, and hey, I have even
learned how to focus again! I'm hooked.
Charles
"Joan C. Barnett" wrote:
> Hello everyone! I am new to this list. Found it because my beloved OM-2N
> has light leak problems suddenly (and my OM-1, which I love as well has a
> light meter that is "off" and I need info on how to fix it) -- but I'm glad
> I found this list! How many of you have the old OM-1s and -2s?
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