Well, as someone else mentioned, they didn't have OMs when I was a tyke.
My first camera was a Kodak Brownie twin lens box at about age 5. I
fooled around with my dad's folding Kodak 120 camera and took a couple
of pics of the moon with it hanging off my home made 4 1/4 inch
reflector telescope made from a peice of aluminum irrigation pipe in my
early teens. Didn't use dad's Practiflex much, that tiny view in the top
was terrible. I did a lot with his Topcon Super-D in late HS and early
college, then his Nik*n Ftn, then my own.
The OM-1 didn't come until 1973, the first year of production under that
name. I don't remember what month I bought it, but the production code
is June, 1973 and I bought it new. The Nik*n went to a new home and the
OM-1 and 50/1.8 are still with me and older than my children. Oh yes, I
was 29 at the time and I'll be 60 in a couple of weeks. Next camera was
an OM-2n with 100/2.8, next lens a 35-70/3.6, all new, still with me,
but I use OM-4s and OMPCs almost exclusively these days..
Moose
jamesbcouch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>For those brave enought to answer -
>
>How old are you now (you can skip this part if you wish!) :)
>
>And (more importantly) how old were you when you bough your first OM,
>and what was it?
>
>
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