A number of years ago there was a Brit magazine that did a very amusing
series of stress tests on cameras. Things like baking them in ovens and
freezing them and dropping them. The conclusion as I remember it was
that the OM4T tied with a Leica M for the most bullet proof camera they
had tested. Don't know if they had tested a Nikon F.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Feb 20, 2005, at 10:44 PM, Moose wrote:
> Chris Barker wrote:
>
>> I know that I have told the story before, but my OM4 fell from my
>> nerveless fingers onto cobbles in Trier (a beautiful town in Germany,
>> for the non-travellers among us). There is a slight dent in the base
>> plate, but no spontaneous photo of a distressed owner watching his
>> pride and joy becoming damaged ;-)
>>
> OK, Chris, it's cameras and nails at 3 paces, but if I lose, I'll be
> the
> less distressed one.
>
> Your place or mine? :-)
>
> Moose
>
>> On 21 Feb 2005, at 04:42, Moose wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Best camera for those tasks is a Nik*n F or F2. About as good as the
>>> OM-1 at -50deg (and much better than me). Not only better at the
>>> other
>>> two tasks, but more likely than the OM to function afterwards.
>>>
>>> Personal experience. Nik*n Ftn, 5 ft. drop to concrete floor. Short
>>> term
>>> results, crooked, out of focus shot of ceiling of interior of Hoover
>>> Dam, small dent on camera bottom corner. Long term effect on
>>> operation,
>>> performance, nil.
>>>
>
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