My bad. I made one of my rare -- stop laughing -- typos. I meant
the Takumar 50/1.4. I never had the 55/1.8.
Walt
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Gene Wilburn <gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:25:44 -0400 (EDT)
>
>I had (and still have) a Honeywell Pentax H1a. The mirror
>returns, but there's no meter. The Takumar that came with that
>one was 55/1.8, not 50/1.8. Was there an earlier 50/1.8? I later
>added a 50/1.4. The camera is not much bigger than an OM-1 but
>somewhat heavier. I'd sold it to my brother-in-law in the 70's
>and he just gave it back this year because it's been in his
>closet for 20 years and he'd rather shoot digital. Took it for
>a spin a while back and it's still a good basic camera. The
>Takumar 50/1.4 is definitely a better lens, IMO, than the 50/1.8
>Zuiko.
>
>Gene
>(reading from digest)
>
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