An update from Gary Reese-
Gary was one of the main persons behind the previous book attempt.
Hi Steve:
Good job posting the table of contents! Since I can't contribute to the
list until a bug is
worked out, would you mind posting this?
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Anyone undertaking a book project needs to review what we accomplished at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OM-Book/
One of the moderators of this dormant "group" will be happy to approve
you if you ask for
member rights.
Do ask yourself if there is enough interest to justify the effort and
enough funding/time to
execute it. The way I see it, there isn't because too much regarding the
Olympus OM System
is already available for free on the Web. If I had any doubts, I proved
myself right when I
posted the price data for the Zuiko lens and had no takers for buying
price data on anything
I didn't post: bodies, accessories, generic lenses, literature,
ephemera, . . .
My lens test data is already committed to a book in progress. It's
already available on the
web for free, so I gave away the rights to publish it. Therefore, a
book is already in the
works, folks. Don't ask for for additional information, because I don't
have it to give,
other than to say it's being written in the UK.
There is privately held data on virtually anything folks ever ponder
over here on the List.
Production runs, serial number vs. coating type sequences, OM related
publication lists in
all major languages, etc. . . Folks are becoming less altruistic in the
face of web content
raiders, so they don't freely give up what they have. If you find
something like these
subjects on the web, it's got significant errors and is untrustworthy
data - in the face of
what has been compiled. But most folks don't seem to care if the data
is untrustworthy. It
free, so that is all that seems to matter to most end users . . .
Gary Reese
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