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It is immensly
> freeing to finally nick something that was mint. The sense of anxiety
lifts and you can start using it with full abandon.
this is so true !
I have a number of bodies which are all in pristine condition and
they hardly ever get used. I feel like I must "save" them (for what
exactly I don't know....), whereas I have a beat-up dog ugly OM-4Ti
that I got from a pro sports photog (I wanted his MD2), and a beat-up
even uglier Om-2n (came with a lens I bought) that looks like it has
fallen out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.....
Even though they are so beat-up, they both work great and the funny
thing is, that these are my two most used bodies, probably because I
can relax when I'm using them and not worry about a bump or a scratch
here or there (I'm still careful, just not paranoid like I am with a
LN Cond OM-1n).
Mind you, some of the bodies I now wrap in cotton wool are bodies
that i have had for 20 years (OM-1n chrome bought S/H in '81) and 14
yrs (OM-4Ti bought new in '87 or thereabouts) Each had countless
rolls of film go through them before I started to consider them as
needing to be "saved" and "protected" and yet they would still both
be described as Ex++ condition.
Which raises the question - what the heck do pro photogs do to their
cameras that get them into such a terrible state? Roll them down
stairs? Twenty minutes a day in a cement mixer with some rocks?
You've just gotta wonder......
peter
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