AG-Schnozz wrote -
>If you are looking for a purely technical list, this isn't it.
>It was, for maybe a year, but that changed due to two factors:
>No new products from Olympus, and the recognition that the OM
>system attracted very unique personalities.
Or creates them - every time I join I end up buying a poultice of OM
gear. Eventually I'll need therapy. Is this because of a need to
belong? Prolly.
>
>There is a profile of the "average" OM user:
>1. Prefer Functionality over Functions (sounds like an article)
Yup - hate the triumph of form over function.
>2. Like sports cars, such as RX-7s, Lotus's, Triumphs, MGB's.
Er, 'spose so but only old ones or Morgans really.
>3. Real job is something other than photography
You call what I get paid for a REAL job?
>4. Either owns an SUV or secretly desires one (ahem)
Guilty, but an old one.
>5. Dislikes both Bush and Kerry (double ahem)
Who? You being amerkocentric here?
>6. Has or wants a Leica Rangefinder camera.
Does a Voigtlander kit count?
>7. Has a real life.
>
There you go being 'real' again. 'Reality' is a sham, a shadow, a
mutable amalgam of intangibles and we're trying to photograph it in a
vain attempt to lock in some few moments of the whole bewildering
torrent. Great. That's where we go. Burn film and prosper.
AndrewF
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