Hi Jim:
Thanks, that is great enabling. You are inviting me to become 'Brokaw' too.
The 35RD and the IS30 sound the most interesting. I will look at them after
my next cull- I have been amazed at my OM farm how rapidly they multiply, I
now have 5 OM bodies, 13 Zuikos, 4 flashes etc. Trades considered.
Thanks Gord
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Brokaw" <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 1:43 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Great Small Oly Film Cameras
> on 1/19/04 10:32 AM, Winsor Crosby at wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > On Jan 18, 2004, at 10:38 PM, Gordon J. Ross wrote:
> >> I take your point though, now I will have to re-read through all the
> >> previous 'zoom' posts re the stylus. Not being very familiar with
> >> anything
> >> outside the OM line, what is the favoured Olympus 'small' camera?
> >>
> >
> > I am pretty well restricted to OM as well, but many on the list are
> > enthusiastic about the various Stylus and XA cameras, both small and
> > available in black. Sexy is in the eye of the beholder. :-)
> >
> > Winsor
> > Long Beach, California
> > USA
>
> I've got several varieties of small Olympus cameras... it depends on what
> user-mode you feel like. For a compact fixed lens rangefinder the Olympus
> 35-RC is outstanding. The Olympus 35-RD has a much faster lens, is
slightly
> larger, but offers excellent handling and good images. Both these cameras
> offer fully manual control as well as an 'auto' exposure mode, and
> rangefinder focusing.
>
> A more modern rangefinder compact Olympus is the XA, which is slightly
> wider-angle lens (35mm focal length instead of 42mm focal length...) but
> gives up the option of manually selecting shutter speeds.
>
> Even more modern, but giving up all manual control, is the Olympus Stylus
> Epic, a -very- compact and sharp 35/2.8 lensed carry-about camera. This
> includes a built-in flash which is quite capable, as well as motorized
film
> advance/rewind. Newer than that are some variations mostly adding zoom
> lenses but considerably larger in size for it, though still not big by any
> means. The zoom lenses tend to be rather slow at all focal lengths.
>
> For a casual snap-shot camera with great versatility I like the IS-30,
which
> yields great pictures while still being compact. Some manual control is
> possible, but its a bit of work to do it and I've gotten consistently
> outstanding pictures just using the auto settings.
>
> Really you need one of each... <g>
> --
>
> Jim Brokaw
> OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
>
>
>
>
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