All these talks of "please, let me buy an OM3-T now" got me thinking, since
re-inflicted with Zuikoholism a bit more than a year ago (I can stop
anytime if I want to, honest), I have spent some major $$$ to get the glass
that I have. All those f2s are expensive. On retrospect, the bodies are
"cheap." I bought the OM4T 14 years new for $499, and just 10 mos ago an
OM4 for backup for ~$260. They dwarf in comparison to the 90/2 and the 180/2.8.
So sometimes I have to ask myself, is it worth it? I mean some pictures are
priceless for sure, but would I have gotten as good a shot with a cheaper
system? I could have picked up a nice Elan 7 w/ 2 zoom lens, for example,
with money left over.
On the plus side, I have definitely pay a lot more attention in the last
year on the effect of exposure and other aspects of making a photograph. I
have taken a good number of pictures before, around 50 rolls a year
especially when the kids were young (actually, I am shooting more now...)
while they are better than your average snapshots, I can't say I worry
about too too much photo-graph-ing. Just point, and shoot. Now with the
prime lens and slide films, I tend to think more in terms of what kind of
picture effects I want. What the lighting is going to be like, how the
exposure range is going to show up in the pictures etc.
// richard <http://www.imagecraft.com>
<http://www.dragonsgate.net/mailman/listinfo>
On-line orders, support, and listservers available on web site.
[ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous
replies in your msgs. ]
< This message was delivered via the Olympus Mailing List >
< For questions, mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >
< Web Page: http://Zuiko.sls.bc.ca/swright/olympuslist.html >
|