Thank you very much all for the very warm welcome and all the great advice!
(and sorry for the small delay to reply back)
My Olympian news since last week:
--> I did break my money-box and bought a 100/2.8.. my first zuiko portrait
lens!.. i'll probably have to stop all expenses for few weeks -and even
think to find a part-time job (i'm student now) in order to buy any other
Om-equipment or even film hahha.. but I felt that a zuiko is a zuiko... (and
couldn't wait any more)
--> I scanned most of my negatives from a trip to Dublin, 2 weeks ago, with
my beloved OM-4!
It's a pitty that used very little my 35/2.8 which as I discovered has a
fantastic bokeh indeed (as AG exactly said!)... To admit my sin and
perverted logic, I mostly used a Tokina 28/2.8, not only for the bit wider
angle, but mainly because I thought being in Dublin.. if you know what I
mean... there were many chances my lens will end up swimming in the sea, a
river or a pint...
Anyway, here are some photos uploaded:
http://luuphotosoc.com/mambo/component/option,com_zoom/Itemid,39/catid,11/PageNo,1/
We (the OM-4 and I) are still in our honey moon period, but we'd still
appreciate any criticisms and comments :)
The films used are Fuji Superia 200 & 400 and there is generally some
post-processing applied. Note that the site is still under construction so
forgive some obvious silly things -like the bigger thumbnails for 'portrait'
photos, for which we have not discovered a solution yet...
best regards
Christos
On 4/10/06, Christos Stavrou <christos.stavrou@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> A big hello to everyone in this community!
>
> I've been following this list for some time and recently decided to join
> the email-list as well... it's a great thing what you've got in here...
>
> As concerns me, it all just started last Autumn (until then I was an
> unsuspected Eos user with a decent Canon eos zoom).
> But somehow, partly because I was looking for something else (or.. more?),
> and partly because I was simply looking for a good prize for a raffle of a
> student photo-society which I run, I bought two manual focus cameras from
> the net (yes, from that place).
>
> So here I was.. playing around with a Pentax ME-super and an Olympus OM-20
> (both with a 50mm prime lens). I started testing the first and announced the
> second as the prize... I already was positevely shoked with the quality and
> character of the produced photos when developed the first film...
> Nevertheless, it was when I had my first experience with the Olympus, (I
> still remember that night), that something clicked forever!... The creative
> process in its full, ecstatic power..
>
> How much I first enjoyed her beautiful looks and special touch in my
> hands... (oh-la-la a la Freud or a la Woody Allen's terms :-) And more: the
> way it could involve me totally (from the visualisation of the picture to
> thinking the details of exposure..).. Here it was, the hidden appreciation
> of subjectivity and creative individuality I was always dreaming about...
> Finally the end result: I saw the pictures and the fascinating, rather
> coldish, yet real, immediate and still almost painterly (so ambiguous!)
> aesthetics of the Zuiko lens took my mind away...
>
> To keep it short, I soon emailed everyone that the prize has changed and
> it's a.. Pentax (great item nevertheless) and of course I started gathering
> info and buying Zuiko lenses and OM-bodies.. hmm.. Actually I have pushed
> my student poverty to its outermost limit... It was love in first sight..
> It's an addiction till the end, I can see now!... It even goes on despite
> occasional setbacks such as that half of my pics turn to be very.. hmm..
> 'eccentric'.. (especially in my first days when even forgetting to focus),
> or an erratically-playing shutter of the OM-20 one day.. or a totally moldy
> OM-40 that got next... etc. or finally the quite expensive for my standards
> OM-4...
>
> Today I saw another OM-4 in the local shop.. it seemed OK apart a
> blurry/dizzy viewfinder (it appears that something like glue or other
> transparent liquid has been applied inside there)... But you know the
> problem, dont you? My logic says: No! stay away.. You got no money, it's not
> even sure it can be fixed or enjoyed... but my mind is still there.. What
> should I do?
>
> I have some more questions to ask, (like: anyone out there with a portrait
> lens for sale?!!).. but I'll leave them for later.. :)
> I hope you enjoyed the story, the drama, the potential 'katharsis' of
> another Olympus fan..
>
> best regards to all
> Christos
>
> [ps: suggested soundtrack: do you know that old Leonard Cohen song: One of
> us cannot be wrong...]
>
>
>
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