Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
I eventually picked up this beautiful OM-2 kit for around $400.00 and was fairly certain I would only keep a couple of the lenses and maybe the body and sell the rest … but I’m not so sure now! This was someone’s carefully considered choice for an SLR system thirty plus years ago and to break it up would be a shame. This gear was being used right up until it’s owner’s accidental death in a bizarre plane crash sixteen years ago that also killed his wife while they were doing a wing walking act. He was flying the plane!
When I went through it carefully I was amazed to find all the original documentation carefully stored in a side pocket of the large case it came in. The camera’s handbook and warranty card along with instructions for the pistol grip motor drive, flash unit and any other accessory that had been bought with it were all there along with a book on general photography and another book on Olympus SLRs!
The contents of this kit can give some insight into the person who put it together IMO … the choice of focal lengths and lens types and the various accessories and filters all have their significance and give some indication as to what the original owners main usage may have been. … and noting which lenses show the most wear gives an idea of their preferred focal lengths. It’s an interesting choice of lenses … a 28mm, two 50s along with a 135 and 300mm … one of the 50s is a macro. Certainly some range there!
And it’s all immaculate … the camera shows a little wear as does the 50mm f1.4 but the rest of the lenses all look like they just came out of the box! The camera had the 50mm f1.4 mounted on it so it was obviously the preferred choice for general use and there was an unused roll of Kodak 200 colour in the camera … advanced to the first frame.
I don’t really want to sell any of it … from the odd looking case it came in to the strange looking pneumatic remote shutter release with the three meter extension! When you get hold of something like this you’re basically walking in another person’s shoes when you use it so to speak ... which actually has some significance for me for some strange reason!
When I went through it carefully I was amazed to find all the original documentation carefully stored in a side pocket of the large case it came in. The camera’s handbook and warranty card along with instructions for the pistol grip motor drive, flash unit and any other accessory that had been bought with it were all there along with a book on general photography and another book on Olympus SLRs!
The contents of this kit can give some insight into the person who put it together IMO … the choice of focal lengths and lens types and the various accessories and filters all have their significance and give some indication as to what the original owners main usage may have been. … and noting which lenses show the most wear gives an idea of their preferred focal lengths. It’s an interesting choice of lenses … a 28mm, two 50s along with a 135 and 300mm … one of the 50s is a macro. Certainly some range there!
And it’s all immaculate … the camera shows a little wear as does the 50mm f1.4 but the rest of the lenses all look like they just came out of the box! The camera had the 50mm f1.4 mounted on it so it was obviously the preferred choice for general use and there was an unused roll of Kodak 200 colour in the camera … advanced to the first frame.
I don’t really want to sell any of it … from the odd looking case it came in to the strange looking pneumatic remote shutter release with the three meter extension! When you get hold of something like this you’re basically walking in another person’s shoes when you use it so to speak ... which actually has some significance for me for some strange reason!
