Okay:
i) Does anyone use a hand held light meter, or do you trust/leave it
to your OM? And if you do, what are you using and how do you find it?
ii) Does anyone have a 72mm Oly lens cap that they could spare?
(please, please, please)
iii) Does anyone want a spare Canon A80?
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NOn 29 May 2009, at 01:36, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Welcome, Nic. We're all just sitting around here gabbing away about
> most anything waiting for someone like you to come along and ask some
> on-topic questions. Welcome to the club. :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Nicolas Mitchell wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm new to the list and would like to say hello. My friend and I used
>> to take photos of each other and the world with a Praktika that had a
>> lens, if you see what I mean. We would put ISO400 into it and think
>> we
>> were pushing barriers. At some point I got a Pentax MZhmm hmm I don't
>> remember. It had a zoom lens and we had some fun with that too. I
>> lost
>> both of those in a fire in 2001 and didn't resume my photo pursuits
>> until I was made redundant in 2007 and nabbed a Canon A80 from the
>> fallout. Boy did that rekindle something. I have had so much fun with
>> it. To the extent of buying 2 more from ebay, just in case. I
>> bought a
>> Canon G6 too, but it didn't ignot my passion as much as the A80 had.
>> But then on to DSLR, something I tried to resist, what with the money
>> and all. But there it was, in my hands. The Canon 40D and the 17-85mm
>> lens. £800. Then the 60mm macro. £200. Then the 10-22mm. £499. Then a
>> second hand 70-300mm. £600. I got so fed up with it. Too much money
>> spent and grr, I just wasn't using it as much as the A80. And to
>> explore the possibilities? Another £200 here or more likely £700. I
>> sold it and the lenses too. I bought a second hand Voigtlander Bessa
>> (R3A) with a 40mm lens. I'd spent some of my money and took some
>> pics.
>> Unfortunately the rangefinder was misaligned and I sent it back. It's
>> gone to Japan, I don't know when it will return. This was back in
>> January. So, in the meantime I was looking for a camera to use and
>> remembered my friend talking about how his Olympus camera had been
>> stolen and when the insurance company came to a replacement he (how
>> likely is this?) forgot that it was an OM40 and told them it was an
>> OM4, which he duly received. He raved about his OM4, its size, its
>> ease of use. So I bought one from a secondhand shop in Bath. Then I
>> bought some lenses from both ebay and some shops round Bloomsbury. I
>> haven't looked back. Who can say they can walk out with a camera and
>> three or four lenses and not need a suitcase? Who? I ask you. It's
>> been such an experience. Tonight I went out with a 24mm and took
>> photos of closed shops/restaurants after thinking I'd be taking
>> pictures of drunks and buses.
>> So that's me.
>> Hello list.
>> All the best,
>> Nic
>>
>>
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