What a sensible and considerate way to start a basic photo class. Are you sure
you want to go to the next one?
Julian
> from: "R. Jackson" <jackson.robert.r@xxxxxxxxx>
> date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 06:12:13
> to: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> subject: Re: [OM] First night in Leic*-land. ;-)
>
> I had my first night of class in my new photo class tonight. It's an
> elementary photography and darkroom techniques class. Gotta love it. We
> all had to let the instructor take a look at our cameras. There were
> about 30 of us there and my OM-4T and OM-1n were the only system
> cameras there, although one girl did have an OM-2000. After making the
> rounds, the instructor pulled out an M6 (black tape over the logo,
> natch) and started telling us how nothing in the 35mm gauge will take
> photos that look as impressive as those from a Leic* rangefinder. He
> explained his assertion, commenting on how they invented 35mm
> photography and that a rangefinder has a much less complicated
> light-path than an SLR, etc, etc, etc. Then he showed us a slide
> presentation of the work of Henri Cartier Bresson, which he said was a
> good example of photographs taken with one of the Holy Rangefinders.
>
> I think I have Leic* envy. ;-)
>
> His M6 *was* a pretty cool little box. It had an amazingly compact lens
> on it, which kind of reminded me of an Oly pancake lens. It had a
> small, hard Bakelite/plastic/whatever rectangular lens hood. He went on
> to talk about how Leic* won't admit it, but their SLR models aren't
> nearly as nice as their rangefinders. It was like a sales presentation
> for the Holy Rangefinder. The shutter was really quiet, but my shutters
> aren't exactly loud. That's always been a draw of the Oly system for
> me, actually. They were always so much quieter and more compact than
> most other SLRs.
>
> SO, I know there are some of you out there who own both, are their
> optics really nicer than Zuiko optics? I've always been really
> impressed with Zuiko primes.
>
> -Rob
>
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