I guess this is said a lot, but allow me to express amazement at how
much bigger
and brighter the OM-1's viewfinder is compared to a Canon EOS 1-series
DSLR (which has
a pretty darn good viewfinder already).
Anyway,if you recall from an earlier mail, I have ordered an OM-1n
body and a couple
of lenses. The 90mm f/2.0 Macro arrived today, and I am using it on a
rather beaten OM-1
with a dead meter from my Colleague's collection to shoot a roll of
test film (FP4),
until my body arrives.
The lens appears to have a lot of small specks inside it which is
either dust, or something
else - visible only in bright, direct sunlight shining on the lens
from an angle. I hope it
won't affect performance, though I imagine it could lower the contrast
of a shot
taken into the sun - will have to test. I *really* hope it's not some
problem with the coating
of the lens, this 90mm was bloody expensive!! It looks near mint in
all other respects though,
so I am suspecting strangely-regular dust for the moment.
Whilst the 90mm is a tad heavy for the body (the package doesn't have
great ergonomics) it
is a great, solid and rather unobtrusive little package - I love it.
But the viewfinder - achieved with such an externally small prism:
wow. Cherish the day the
make a DSLR with a finder like this. Then, of course, it will likely
be a big brick.
I already feel so at home with this system, it's such a refreshingly
pure tool.
Now to finish the test roll and see if I can develop it properly...
regards,
Dawid
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