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Re: [OM] What to keep when the Digital Day comes

Subject: Re: [OM] What to keep when the Digital Day comes
From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:07:58 -0500
I'm struggling with this now, as I am shrinking the kit.  If I shrunk
completely down.......

My 'keeper' list will always be too long, but off the top of my head, I'd
say.

OM-4T (beater)
OM-1 & OM-2 (my original black bodies)

Covers all the bases, doesn't it?

MD1 with Nicad/Charger (yes, 1, not 2)
Winder 2

Who needs more?

BG2/T20/T32/F280
T8 or T10 (how to decide?)

Too many flashes.  Do you keep the BG2? The T20?

Now for the tough part.  Lenses.  Want'em all.

Primes

21/2 (or 3.5, but I'm leaning to the 2)
28/2 (or 2.8, but again, I'm leaning fast)
50/1.8 mij or maybe the 50/1.4.  What about the 50/1.2?
90/2 - of course, but what about the 85/2?  The 100/2?  The 100/2.8?
135/2.8

Zooms

35-70/3.5-4.5
35-80/2.8 (I can't give either one up)
50-250/5

Is that it?  Maybe.  So many choices.  Do you keep the Tamron 80-200/2.8?
What about the 35-105.  The 18/3.5.  The 24/2.8.  Long lenses? The 300/4.5.
The 400/6.3.  What, no 200?  Oh boy.


What to do, what to do.  Particularly since my time is so limited now.....

Heck, just selling them with two auctions a week on ebay would take months.

Tom

> I know sometime Sept the list had a series on favorite lens and body
> combinations. Now I wonder just what most of us would keep for keepsake
when
> the inevitable day comes we or many do the jump into the awaited digital
> Olympus SLR with interchangeable lenses?
>
> I would keep an OM1 and OM 2s with characterful lenses such as maybe the
> 21/3.5, 35/2, 85/2 and the 35/105 zoom.
> The digital would be for snapshots more than anything else, the OM for
> leisurely shooting.
>
> How about you guys?
>
> Regards
>
> Titoy
>


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