At 09:11 PM 4/2/2003 -0500, you wrote:
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
Mickey,
I have to say that the spot meter is something I never despised. I went to
a small Nikon set after the Mamiya-Sekor, picked up an OM-1 from a friend
going through a crisis, and then finally settled on the greatest camera of
all time, the OM-2S. I think I definitely missed the spot meter of the
DTL1000. The OM-2S had it, with so many other surpassing qualities.
I gave my Mamiya-Sekor set to my brother, who proceeded to break it. I
feel sorry about that when it comes to mind, which isn't often.
At least one other person on list at one time had owned a DTL1000. It might
have been Buddy Walters, but I'm not sure of that.
Joel W.
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