dee said:
There are plenty of raves for early Olympus rangefinders - but are these later cameras any good as a pocket camera ?
My carry-almost-everywhere camera for over 10 years has been an Olympus Stylus Zoom. On another thread here they were saying that the mu (mju) series in Europe is known as the Stylus series here in the States. I'm convinced that it's really a quality instrument, within its limitations of course. I've done a couple of stunning 13x19 prints from photos I've taken with it.
Yes, it's auto everything, but I've taken many shots with it that I would have missed by not having a camera, any camera, with me.
Until recently I was concerned about it lasting much longer. I know these are not repairable and this one is over 10yo. It's been thrown around in the bottom of a denim purse, tossed in the back seat of the car, lost under the pads of a couch once, had beer spilled on it once, and it's taken it!
Just the other day I found a close-out of a similar model (zoom 28-100) for US$79 and I snapped it up as a spare/replacement. I thought I got a great deal but you obviously got a better deal.
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Should I load with slide film and give it a go ?
As long as I've had this I've never used slide film. I always keep it loaded with either 200 or 400 print film, something that will be good for general shooting outdoors or indoors with (ugh!) flash. Very seldom does the auto-exposure fail to give a usable exposure, but slide film can't take a joke as far as exposure goes, so I might suggest that you shoot a few rolls of print film and inspect the negatives for any sign of poor exposure before you try slide film in it. It's really impossible to bracket with this camera, and that's what I do when shooting slides.
