I just got my Olympus Chrome Six two or three weeks ago and was being ever
so happy and thinking what fun I was having with this old MIOJ folder. I'd
shot a couple of rolls, printed some of them up and was in the process of
flattening them out at The Museum of Fine Arts, Glassell School of Art in
Houston,
when it happened.
Heck, Piers and I had emailed and he was happy he got the 40mm and I was
glad I had resisted. He said he had sold his OM 3 and that got me to
seriously
thinking about maybe letting one of my OM 3 bodies go live with someone else.
I could maybe thin out a few duplicates . . . maybe sell the Tamron 80-200
f2.8 and keep the Tokina, or maybe the other way around. It wouldn't matter,
as no one really needs two of anything. Well, other than certain body
parts.
It was like a sneak attack on my flank. There she was toning those prints
while my stuff was getting flattened in the presses. Hmm, those look kind of
interesting. Haven't seen her in here before. Think maybe I'll just go over
and take a look and strike up a conversation? Big mistake! No, it was
bigger than that, but you can decide how much bigger. Besides being
interesting
subjects, nicely printed, well composed, they were also each composed of a
series of images in some sort of sequence. Hmm, wonder what she was using.
Oh, foolish me. I should have known better, but then I guess that is why it
is called a weakness. Are those a series of 645 images? No, oh, really.
Her answer, "I use a P E N, that was made by Olympus." "Please lady, say
anything but that. I'm in a program. My sponsor isn't going to like this."
I
guess the saving grace is that it is one of the cheap point and shoot, select
your scene type, view finder PEN cameras.
It happened so fast. It was faster than a speeding bullet. I, who never
had any interest in no dang half a##ed, half frame camera (even one made by
Olympus), was converted in about three and half microseconds. May have to be
getting me one of those . . . afterall I really don't have enough projects or
tools with which to complete them.
You might like to take a look at her website, which she says she needs to
update. It is _www.betsyhaasgallery.com_ (http://www.betsyhaasgallery.com) .
Be
sure and take a look at her bio.
I did mention this list to her, so she may pay us a visit. If so, mind your
manners and act right. We might learn something. She said she thought she
might need to dust off the OM 1 she bought back in the 70's.
So take a look and those who want can start submitting their offers of PEN
cameras. UGH! Oh, just go ahead and keep them. Let me suffer in solitude. I
don't need another camera or another project. Really I don't! <PEN{8^)HEAD
Bill Barber
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