I checked and you are correct on all counts - except - I have no way of
knowing the author's real name! Also the point about page 86 is
subjective - but then again, the author uses the same basic description for
all the Olympus cameras! Start at the pentaprism and work our way around in
a clockwise direction.....
Jim Caldwell
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----- Original Message -----
From: "hnz" <hcvanveluwen@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Harold Franklin's Book
> : Well... I skimmed throught it quite quickly - but nothing really jumped
> out
> : at me. I'll look back through the archives and see if I can pinpoint
the
> : errors that you are referring to!
>
> Some of the 'highlights' in this book are:
> - the name of the author is wrong (must be a joke to translate the German
> author Franke into Franklin)
> - the table of contents is wrong
> - the chapter on the OM-3 & OM-4 only covers the OM-3
> - the Guide Number formulas on page 163 are wrong
> - the bellows on page 178 is a Novoflex bellows, not Olympus (funny is
that
> there are other Modern Classics books on other camera systems that have
the
> same error)
> - the 'leisurely' way (page 86) the cameras are described is very boring.
>
>
> hnz
>
>
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