I'm curious on your comment about the holes in the lens line. What do you
consider missing?
Tom
> Dirk Wright wrote
>
> > The sales clerks make fun of people like me when I inquire about OM
> > gear,
>
> You must be going to one of those high-volume places that sell
> entry-level Minoltas with 28-200 zooms. Of *course* they don't
> want you around making all the other customers feel inadequate.
>
> Where I go, the attitude to OM varies from worship to
> quiet respect tinged with mourning. As most good camera shops
> have a selection of used equipment of a dozen brands or more
> in half a dozen formats they're pretty unlikely to look down
> their noses at quality equipment of any brand or age.
>
> *Never* seek approval from a salesperson.
>
> > there is very little used stuff in the glass cases,
>
> Mainly because it's snapped up so quickly, especially the rare
> stuff.
>
> > and no new OM gear at all in any store locally.
>
> You can't blame them. Try asking to handle other low-volume high-quality
> stuff like the most expensive Minolta bodies and lenses - I bet it's
> "not in stock."
>
> > The pros have been seduced by the AF demons and thus left the OM line
> > in a hurry.
>
> You don't think it might have been the 1/60 flash synch and the holes
> in the lens line that they couldn't put up with?
>
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