On 02/09/06, keith_w <keith_w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Martyn Smoothy wrote:
> > No OM-1? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
> Khen? He would have to have!
> Like the Swiss Home Guards, he's probably required to keep an OM-1 at
> home,
> just in case.
Yes I have one but to release the lock, I have to press the DEFCON-III
button. In the meantime, it's the OM-4Ti doing workhorse hours....
Small, insignificant story: I bought an OM-1 MD within the same year they
> showed up on the dealer's shelf!
> What was that? Maybe early 1974?
>
> Anyhow, it was given to my better half (at the time) on our separation and
> divorce, who has in the meanwhile kept it safe and dry.
> That was 1979.
>
> So, these 26 years later, I managed to get her to release that poor ol'
> thing
> into my custody!
> Cleaned up and CLA'd, it has a new life ahead of it!
> A battery adapter will take care of that little glitch.
>
> To me it is at once familiar and comfortable, yet somehow new!
> It looks brand new! Good handling camera!
>
> Those old cameras are as wonderful today as they ever were! <g>
they're trusty ole and reliable pals...I look at my OM-1 and I smile. He
smiles back at me.
I started out with film, in about 1939, in a Retina I, eventually ended up
> with digital in 2002.
> Now, in 2006, full circle. Back to film!
> LOtsa water under the bridge, no?
>
>
> keith whaley
>
>
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