That's about 15 years befor the OM-1 and, other than being an SLR, a
different category of camera. In the meantime, the simple elegance of
the H1, with no meter and preset lenses (does it have auto mirror
return?) had been replaced with large, heavy cameras with all the
mechanical and electronic mechanisms for TTL metering at full aperture,
auto diaphram and mirror action and return. The OM-1 was a real
revelation when it came out after the Topcon Super-D and then Nik*n Ftn
I had been using. I bought the OM-1, got rid of the Nik*n and it was a
great move.
Walt Wayman wrote:
If this is so, then explain, please, why my old Heiland Pentax H1,
which I have had since 1960, more than a decade before the first
OM appeared, is just barely -- and I do mean barely -- bigger than
an OM. Do I have a rare prototype built at the secret Nevada
Pentax plant? Wonder what it might fetch on *bay.
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