Dean: Why the RC over the RD?
Earl
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On 11/3/2004 at 8:26 AM Dean Tyler wrote:
>Welcome back to the list. Lately, I have got the bug for an XA, SP, RC or
>RD. I have read a lot about all of them and, frankly, I will take any when
>I find the right deal. I have been to St. Paul a few times and it is a
>great city (except maybe for the snow, you get more than me (Boston).
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>Dean
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Dropkin [mailto:steve@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 9:00 PM
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] Reintroduction and 35SP/RC comments
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>I left the Oly list about a year-and-a-half ago after I had
>unsubscribed for about a month and found I had very little time to
>keep up with the list. But I'm back ...
>
>A little about me: I live in St. Paul, Minnesota (many, many
>opportunities for winter photography, but the summers are nice). By
>trade I am a computer geek, with a job (performance management) that
>is unexplainable to most people. I also like music (listening, not
>playing), computers (Mac, please, though I can speak non-Mac), and
>home improvement (well, I've _learned_ to like it).
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>My Oly stash: an OM-1, an OM-PC (backup), a 24/2.8, a 28/3.5, a 50/1.4
>(not radioactive AFAIK), a 50/1.8, a 50/3.5 macro, and a 135/3.5. I
>can bolt on a Vivitar 2800 flash and the Vivitar macro-focusing
>teleconverter people on this list like so much.
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>I've also stuck a toe in digital with a (forgive me) Can*n PowerShot
>A40, which has been enough to play with while the prices of DSLRs come
>down to earth.
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>I obviously spend too much time at thrift stores and garage sales,
>because I've also picked up some Oly rangefinders. My "fang" champion
>is a clean XA with an A11 flash that went for all of 49 cents (must
>have been the Kodak padded bag I found it in). I also have
>"semi-fanged" (is that a word?) a 35SP and, recently, a 35RC, both in
>good shape.
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>My (on-topic) comment is that I love both of these cameras for
>different reasons. The SP is so competent, with its great big lens and
>spot metering and all. But the RC feels like it was made for my hand,
>from a solid piece of metal, and feels more to me like my OMs than the
>SP does. Control simply is where my hands want to find it. It's far
>more pocketable, too. The SP is the camera I tote when I know I likely
>will have to dig informal shots out of the dark. But the RC (or the
>digital) is the camera I grab when I'm out for daylight stuff.
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>I feel kinda bad sometimes because none of these cameras gets enough
>exercise (come to think of it, neither do I). But I haven't yet
>brought myself to choose between the SP and RC. The XA has yet to get
>under my skin, but it may yet. It's still pretty new.
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>In closing (those of you who haven't yet nodded off!), I'll mention
>that I rejoined the list because looking at the work you guys do makes
>me want to go out and improve my craft. You do beautiful work! The
>fall color shots especially made me wish I hadn't already missed fall
>here. Keep 'em coming, guys! I'll do what I can to contribute.
>
>Steve
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