Mike,
I own it(2001-2002 edition), and would not recommend it for your
purposes. I paid $80.00 for mine at dealer discount, but if I remember
right, it is over $100.00 on Amazon. It's descriptions are sparse, but
enough to identify a camera, and/or differentiate model changes most of
the time. I just noticed after reading your questions that minr does not
include any of the 3's or 4's. I love mine for heping me identify the
many older camera's I have, but it is not very good for the Olympus OM
series.
AND yes it is thick. I have the soft-bound version, and it about 3
inches thick on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper with 904 pages.
John
Mike Bloor wrote:
>
> Can anyone who owns this book tell me -
>
> How much coverage of Olympus (OM and pre OM) is there ? How do the number
> of pages compare to, say, Nik*n or Can*n ?
>
> What time period does it focus on ? I'm am really interested in 60s-80s
> cameras. I don't want to buy the book if it's largely about much older
> cameras.
>
> Where is the book published ? It seems to be awfully hard to buy. I was
> about to buy one off Amazon when, overnight, the price disappeared and all
> that is now available is a collection of used copies at double or more the
> price of the new one ?
>
> If I am not really interested in prices, more data on the cameras, would
> the latest edition offer much more than one some years old, which I can buy
> second hand quite cheaply ? I had thought of buying an older edition just
> to see if it's worth shelling out on the latest one, but if the book has
> been expanded in the meantime, I might not get a true impression.
>
> Just to get this on topic, is the book big enough to need an SUV to carry
> it around in ?
>
> Mike Bloor
>
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