Nice humour on the site so I went to his home site - he's written a
book called 'The Empirical photographer'?! That does it. I'm starting
on a rival volume - 'The Metaphysical Photographer.' No photographs
but a lot of, er, you know,...soul.
Perhaps we should support him for actually knowing, even if he got it
wrong about the 40mm.
AndrewF
(250/2.0 dammit!)
>This is great. Except I guess it would be a 3Ti for most of us. And a
>250/2.8.
>
>Daniel Tan
>
>
>Excerpt from "The Reviewer's Life",
>http://www.photo.net/mjohnston/column50/
>
>
>Scene 4
>
>I'm driving along a dark and deserted country road. Suddenly, up ahead,
>several sets of headlights. Cars angled into the road. Roadblock.
>
>I slow my trusty Ford. Oops, make that "rusty" Ford. There are several
>hooded figures standing in the rain, nothing but silhouettes in the
>glare from the car headlights. One of them mournfully approaches my car
>window. I crack it.
>
>"Come," the figure says. "We want you to see something."
>
>I pull off the road, put the flashers on, step out. The night is dark.
>The rain is wet. The hooded figures fall into single file, and I follow.
>Up, up, the hillside we go, wending our way through thick brush.
>
>A wet and windswept moor. Lonely graves. We thread our way among the
>headstones. A hound howls mournfully in the distance. Finally the hooded
>figures stop, surrounding an new-looking obelisk, carved of white
>marble. I push through the group and look at the inscription on the
>grave. What does it say? What does it say? My curiosity is at a fever
>pitch.
>
>Here's what it says: "The OM System, R.I.P."
>
>"We're still pretty broken up about it," the guy who approached my car
>says. "We had the world by the tail in 1984. It just wasn't as much fun
>selling a bazillion point-and-shoots in the '90s, you know?"
>
>"So what'd you bring me here for?" I ask.
>
>"Oh. Yeah. Well, we want you to say that the C-8080 is the best. Can you
>do that for us? For old times' sake?"
>
>"Why should I?" I said belligerently. Would he get the point?
>
>He got the point, all right. "Because we'll give you this, he said,
>pulling something from behind the dreadful obelisk.
>
>My eyes widened. I couldn't believe I was holding one of these in my
>hands again! " A black OM-4Ti, with a 40mm f/2 Zuiko!" I wxclaimed.
>"How'd you know!"
>
>"New old stock," he said. "Nobody can get these. Now you just help us
>out, will you?"
>
>"Yeah, yeah, sure! I said.
>
>The Olympus C-8080 is the BEST! Oh yeah, is it ever the best! It's so
>incredibly good! I mean, it's great! Okay, so I haven't actually seen
>one yet. It's still the best!!! I can't believe my luck.
>
>
>
>
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