Fernando, you did well! That is an excellent price for an excellent camera.
I'm just wondering if there will ever be a price/demand rebound on top-tier
film equipment which would properly reflect its usability and quality.
I shot a ton of film this week in the OM-3Ti and OM-4T. What an extreme
pleasure it was to use such quality gear in an environment it seems to have
been specifically designed for.
A couple of observations about camera gear:
1. As autofocus gets better, focus screens get worse.
2. As autoexposure gets better, the operational conditions it will work in
gets narrower.
To expound on these two points: I could very easily manually focus any lens
in the OM bodies in difficult and poor lighting conditions. Autofocus was
about the same speed, but not nearly as accurate. Manually focusing a lens
in an AF camera is almost a lost cause in comparison to the OM body with
2-13 screen.
Autoexposure of the latest/greatest wonderbrick is easily defeated by
something as simple as wearing glasses. Notice how some people always have
to dial in + 1/2 or so of exposure compensation? It's because too much light
is entering the eyepiece and throwing off the sensor's accuracy.
AG
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