Hi, Olympus folks. I signed on to the list a few weeks ago and would like
to introduce myself. My name's Linda; I'm 39 and live just outside
Washington, DC in Arlington, Virginia.
I got my first SLR in my teens (C*non TX) and used it until about five
years ago. That camera even spent a year with me in the Sahara and Sahel
(Peace Corps assignment in Mauritania), living through sandstorms and all
sorts of other abuse. Eventually about five years ago I gave up on it when
it needed a CLA, new foam, and perhaps more, because the expense would have
been far higher than the camera was worth. Perhaps a stupid decision.
Anyway, for the last five years I've just used a nice N*kon P&S which takes
surprisingly decent pictures, though not what I could get out of my manual
SLR.
This summer I stopped at a flea market looking for a small piece of carpet
and on the way out I spotted some camera equipment at a vendor's table. It
turned out to be a nearly mint OM-2n with the original 50mm f1.8 lens, a
Vivitar 70-210 MC macro focusing zoom, a Vivitar 2x matched multiplier
(more on that in a later message), a couple of skylight filters, a T32
flash, a Bounce Grip (more on that later, too), a Winder 2, and a few TTL
autocord thingies.
Immediately I fell in love with the sleekness and compactness of the camera
and lenses, the beautiful lines, and I remembered wanting an OM-something
back when I got the C*non many years ago. I couldn't resist. He was
asking $225 for the lot shortly before the close of the flea market, saying
that if he couldn't get that he'd put the stuff on eBay. I had $200 in my
pocket which I had just taken out of an ATM to be my spending money
(groceries, transportation, all those unimportant things) for the next
couple of weeks, so I offered him that and he took it.
I'm still getting used to the camera, especially the placement of the
aperture and shutter speed rings and the depth of field preview button, all
of which are very different from the C*non. And honestly, I keep
forgetting I have to focus (not to mention worry about exposure when I'm
using it in manual), after five years of having the N*kon do it all for me.
I've managed to take more than a few really bad pictures so far (a couple
of decent ones, too.)
One more thing -- at my brother's wedding this past August, the wedding
photographer saw what I was using, got very excited and asked if he could
see it, saying "Do you know what you have here?!"
Now I just have to learn to do the camera justice. I've never progressed
beyond taking nice snapshots, and now I hope to learn a bit about
photography.
O.k., too long-winded already. Thanks for reading.
Linda Wunderlich
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