All good points, and don't worry, even if I made an investment in an 'other'
system, I'd still be a Zuikoholic at heart. Just sell a few of the lesser
used items and.....
I did a little homework, based on Bruce Hamm's posts (come on people,
haven't you played with these things) and came up with this 'sports kit':
EOS 7E Body - $460
75-300 f/4-5.6 Image Stablized EF - $490
50/1.4 USM - $365
85/1.8 USM - $390
Total = $1705
Prices new at B&H. E*bay prices are about the same, which seems silly.
Not a trivial spend, but could be covered by selling some things. Seems
like the 50 and 80 cover Basketball and the 75-300 covers soccer. You can't
say they're that expensive, compared to even good used OM. The Image
Stablization combined with Autofocus appeals to the gadget freak in me.
I'm going to follow Bruce's advice and see if I can rent a setup for one
weekend.
One thing has me back on the fence. I just got back the rolls shot today.
The stuff with the 4T/50-250 all came out perfect. With 400 speed film, I
was shooting 1/250-1/500 at f/8-f/11, so the depth of field covers my
mistakes.
Interesting academic discussion--might not do a thing.
On another note, the LS-4000 is living up to my expectations. Started the
scan on the first frame and stopped it. Made a few changes in Vuescan to
perfect the settings. Fired it back up, set to scan the entire roll and
walked away.
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mickey Trageser" <mickeytr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Oh no, will the Zuikoholic defect?
> Oh my! Why not keep what you have and put a tele extension on the IS-3?
> Hmmm, You have to stay. Otherwise you need a new bodies, lenses (that are
oh
> so expensive), domain, friends....
>
> A good friend of mine has an F100 that is really the bees knees. Except it
> takes 2 men and a boy to cart the kit around for her. She recently bought
a
> 20 2.8 (oh so sweet) and a Tamron 200-400. It makes for a very cool
system.
> But the $$$ will dwarf your expenses on scannerS. You will not be
satisfied
> with a mediocre 35 from the big guys. The upper range is very good, but I
> don't like the plasticy feel of so many of them.
>
> But as long as you have the bug, I'll give you two dollars and fifteen
cents
> for that OM-4Ti..... ;-)
>
> Oh here's the other problem. If you get too diverse, you can't win the
> game... you know, the one with all the toys wins? You were in that
> neighborhood OM-wise, what now?
>
> Mickey
>
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