Yeah, I'd make sure I had both eyes open too!!!
Chuck Norcutt
Geilfuss Charles wrote:
> Walt,
> I had the exact same experience. It was truly liberating not to
> mention eye-opening.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Walt Wayman
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 3:11 PM
> To: OM List
> Subject: [OM] Viewfinder shock
>
> I will confess to not shooting any film since early fall of last year,
> having been bitten hard by the digital bug. My OMs have languished
> unused, my three OM-4Ti's each with a half-shot roll of Provia still
> inside, the OM-3 empty and without batteries, the OM-4's untouched,
> empty and also battery-less, and the two OM-1n's in zip-lok bags since
> some time before Christmas, when I intended (and still do) to send them
> off to John for a CLA.
>
> Moments ago, I loaded the Odyssey OM-1n, mounted the 35-80/2.8 Zuiko,
> and stepped outside to "dry fire" a shot or two. I damn near fell over
> bass-ackwards when I put the camera up to my good eye! It was like
> waking up parked on the front row of a drive-in theater with a
> Cinemascope double feature showing and a bra-less 10 in a tight T-shirt
> and short shorts nibbling on my ear.
>
> How quickly we forget! Digital is fun, and quick, and easy, and damn
> near foolproof, but now that I'm reminded of what the world looks like
> through a real viewfinder, I'm ordering more film.
>
> Walt, born again
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
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