cassel
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Roger Hicks
Veteran
Dear Chris,Hipsters in Park Slope Brooklyn are lining up to buy them right now!
Another oddball repackaging of probably the same camera is the Olympus Ecru.
These cost a fortune now. A few years ago you couldn't give them away.
There's also the Olympus LT-1, which doesn't cost too much more than the mju/Stylus.
Chris
$10-$180 is a fortune? That's the first figure I found on Google.
Cheers,
R.
cassel
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I'm not as fond of the Ecru as a pretty object
It crosses over into "too odd" even for me!Price-wise, both the O-Product and the Ecru are all over the place...but I've seen very few under $200.
It seems to depend on country of origin, private party versus dealer and condition (makes sense) and what's "in the box".
Cheapest Ecru I see is like $180... plus one with current bid at $80
Godfrey
somewhat colored
Cool little camera, an Olympus collectible. And not hideously pricey. I remember seeing one when they came out—an early retro-steam-punk theme.
People belittle camera companies for producing stuff like this, but I enjoy it when they do. Cameras don't always have to be utterly serious things.
G
I remember seeing one when they came out—an early retro-steam-punk theme. People belittle camera companies for producing stuff like this, but I enjoy it when they do. Cameras don't always have to be utterly serious things.
G
cassel
Well-known
Out shooting this weekend- comparing to old 35mm f3.5 lenses with Tri-X
cassel
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Happy to report that the little Oly O-Product passed the Tri-X Trial with flying (lack of) colors!
Here's some results:
Here's some results:
ChrisPlatt
Thread Killer
Checking eBay sold listings, on average the Ecru sells for FOUR TIMES
the price of the Olympus Stylus/mju I, the model on which it is based.
So yes Roger, that is indeed a fortune, in relative terms at least.
Chris
cassel
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More results - this time the film is CineStill 800 - an odd and unpredictable film.
raid
Dad Photographer
Many years ago, such a camera fetched about $400, if my memory is correct. It was a "design marvel", or so we were told by Shutterbug Magazine or Popular Photography.
Dante_Stella
Rex canum cattorumque
Three zones of autofocus or three steps of autofocus?
It seems to me that there is a lot of confusion in specs and discussions about these terms (and I got caught up in this too when I was shopping point and shoot cameras). A 35mm f/3.5 camera cannot focus in just three steps, even when stopped down.
Most AF - like the Stylus mju-1 -has 100 or more steps from near to far (a cheapo Stylus 80 has hundreds) and some number of zones from 1-3 (3-zone usually picks out the closest subject - it's usually used in conjunction with the term "multibeam").
Dante
cassel
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Summer shots from the O-Product:
