Welcome to the list Cris. Don't worry about the volume of the list, it will slow
down a bit when all of the off topic wars calm down. Seems we have to go through
these OT spates (or maybe that is spats) once in a while :)
Jim Couch
pirjol wrote:
> Hello everybody!
> I'm new to this mailing list, just subscribed today, and I must say I'm
> pretty scared off by all this flood of e-mails coming in. I was warned this
> Online Community would be very active, but I would never had expected it to
> be this active!!!
> My father gave me my Olympus OM-2 back in Romania when I was 15 (that's
> 4 years ago), together with a 1.4/50mm lens and a manual. It seems it was
> bought in the Canary Islands, I don't exactly know when, and throughout its
> *pre-me* life I heard it even went to Nepal.
> It took a while for me to buy the first film and take pictures with the
> camera. Even now I can't say I shot a lot (maybe also due to some budget
> problems :). Nonetheless I studied the OM-2 thoroughly, I can tell it still
> works perfectly, I read everything I could find on the OM-system and on
> photography in general.
> So, yes, it got me, I'm totally in love with the camera. Recently I got
> to use a Nikon F90X, which I totally disagreed with, because, in spite of it
> being "high-tech", somehow managed to produce worse results than the old
> OM-2. In fact, I compared the pictures, and those of the Olympus camera were
> of a much greater quality than the F90X. Don't ask me why!!!
> This autumn I moved to Berlin, to study here, and I got to look around a
> little in the shops.
> Please congratulate me on my latest aquisition, a Zuiko 3,5/28mm lens,
> which I bought in a local store at a pretty good price. It cost 97 DM
> (that's about 40$??-less, I think- please correct me if I'm wrong) - that
> was about half the price I saw in other stores, and I'm happy to have found
> it, especially because it's almost new! [It seemed to me the store owner
> was trying to get rid of it, cause he had no clients :) ]
> I know it's not the best wideangle there is, but the others I just
> couldn't afford, I'm just a poor student after all :) !!!
>
> That's about it.
> I'll be coming back soon with a question.
>
> cris
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