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hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman) wrote:
> Is there anyone here who can honestly say that the amount of gear they have
> today is no greater because of the Internet than it would be if it had
> never been invented? Gee, thanks, Al.
Um.. Let me think... Nope - here's a brief list of the Oly cameras and addons
I've had thus far, in roughly the order I got them:
Olympus Trip 35 - my mother's old camera. Lovely little 35mm compact.
Olympus OM-10 - my first SLR. Got that, a 50mm Zuiko and a Tokina 80-200
(IIRC - I'm not pulling it out of the cupboard to check..) as a birthday
present from my Mum. "It's about time you had a decent camera", she said. I
agreed :). Ended up buying a Cobra Auto210 flash and a cable release for it.
Olympus Winder 1 - bought from a local camera shop. Later sold on eBay.
Olympus Winder 2 - IIRC I got this from Piers Hemy. Shame my flash can't
keep up with it.. will have to sort that..
Olympus C-120 - my first proper digicam. Bought it because A) it was an
Oly, B) because it emulates a USB Flashdrive, no drivers necessary, C) as a
result of B, it's Linux compatible.
Olympus OM-4 - Got this from Piers. Just finished my first roll of film,
which is getting dropped off for developing tomorrow. Fingers crossed!
Some days I wonder if I've got too much Olympus gear, but I always come to
the same conclusion - "That's impossible". :)
Then again, there's still time.. I've thus far resisted buying OM gear off
Ebay, but I'm not sure if I can resist for much longer :)
I've also been playing around with disposable cameras recently (though not
as a replacement for the OM). I've started keeping a Kodak FunFlash in my
coat pocket "just in case". They're refillable (though I guess Kodak would
prefer you didn't) and cheap. And handy for that inevitable situation where
the OM is in the car and you spot what could be the "perfect shot".
I used to carry around a digicam, but Sod's Law dictated that the battery
was always dead right when I needed it. Hence the swap to the Funflash.
Later.
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... Let's organize this thing and take all the fun out of it.
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