Joel,
When I was 18 I worked at Montgomery Ward (US department store gone bankrupt
in recent years) selling cameras and calculators. I really didn't like the
Mamiya cameras. We had the 500DTL and the 1000DTL. The only difference I
remember was the top shutter speed. Nobody wanted to buy them when others
had bayonet mounts available. I had a Minolta SRT-101. Great camera to start
with. But I lusted for the OM-1 when I saw the first magazine ad for it. A
G.I. returning from S. Korea sold a kit to me in 1976. OM-1MD, 50/1.4,
28/3.5, 135/3.5, 2 body bag, Vivitar 181 flash and several filters. I paid
$500 in 1976. Don't know it that was good or bad, but I was thrilled.
I've given this 500DTL a run. Took a roll of my grandson. The pictures were
fairly cool but with a pleasant bokeh. I had difficulty finding the
critical focus on the dim ground glass. Much easier in daylight. Photoshop
will take care of the color balance... I don't expect to get a lot of use
out of the camera. But I do have a 300mm lens for it that may make it a one
trick pony...
If nothing else, it will perform very well keeping the newspaper anchored to
the yard funiture this spring...
-Mickey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Wilcox" <jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 7:38 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] OT] color shift in lens
> At 10:45 PM 4/1/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >My father gave me a used Mamiya 500DTL with Mamiya 50/2. Sure makes me
> >appreciate the OM's! At least it has a spot meter. I ran a roll of film
> >through it. I notice that there is a noticable coolness about the color
> >balance in the viewfinder, AND in the resulting prints with Fuji Reala
100.
> >Could an old lens shift in it's color rendition like that? I put a 300mm
> >Asahi Pentax on it and the color was just fine. Very strange to me. I'm
so
> >accustomed to a more even color balance among my Zuiks.
> >
> >-Mickey
>
> Mickey,
> My first SLR was a Mamiya-Sekor 1000DTL with a Mamiya 50[1.8?] lens that
> was really horrible. And that was when it was closer to new.
>
> Joel W.
>
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