om 1 arrived today

I will risk being bunred at the stake for this blasphemy:
Owning and shooting both the OM 50 1.8 (MC) and the current Leica 50 Summicron... my own experience is that from f2.8 and above, it's often difficult to tell which lens took the picture.
 
I hope the shutter problem clears and you get to enjoy shooting the OM-1, Melanie. Keep all three close-up filters (also called diopters). They're usually a matched set of +1 +2 +3 or +1 +2 +4. As Trius says, they're surprisingly good and you never know when you want to get in really close on something.

Gene
 
Seeing as we are talking OM thought I'd show a couple of pix of my OM-1n MD.
When bought it had a tatty databack so I got a brand new regular back to replace it. It is all in super condition, no brassing. Shown her with the 24mm f2.8. Only other lens I have is a silvernose 50mm f1.4.
 

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For some reason I have a really hard time seeing meter readings in the viewfinder of every metered camera I own -- my eyes don't focus right at that distance or something
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Hi Melanie, that's interesting, because it is something that has started happening to me since I've been using rangefinder cameras. With the OMs I find myself looking at the scene and having to consciously look elsewhere for the exposure info - I can't remember having that feeling before. There is a different feeling between the two types of camera - with a rangefinder I feel I'm more looking at the subject, but with an SLR it's more like I'm looking at a TV picture of the subject, and I wonder if that's the cause.
 
bibimbap said:
I will risk being bunred at the stake for this blasphemy:
Owning and shooting both the OM 50 1.8 (MC) and the current Leica 50 Summicron... my own experience is that from f2.8 and above, it's often difficult to tell which lens took the picture.
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Try the 50 f2, you will be able to tell them apart then
 
Also depends on which Zuiko 50/1.8 you have. The earliest silvernose (labelled F.ZUIKO on trim ring) is the "least accomplished", certainly not a sharpness king, but not a dog either. The lasted iteration, labelled "made in Japan" (not just "Japan") is a superb 50.

The Zuiko 50/2 macro has a great reputation as well, though I've never owned one, so can't comment.
 
Trius said:
Also depends on which Zuiko 50/1.8 you have. The earliest silvernose (labelled F.ZUIKO on trim ring) is the "least accomplished", certainly not a sharpness king, but not a dog either. The lasted iteration, labelled "made in Japan" (not just "Japan") is a superb 50.

The Zuiko 50/2 macro has a great reputation as well, though I've never owned one, so can't comment.
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Had one bought for me, blond girlfriend at the time didn’t understand the difference between f1.2 and f1:2 I was really disappointed until I used it, then wow, serendipity on a grand scale
 
I'm beginning to think that my other group (Zuikoholics) has now merged with RFF! My OM-1 was the first real (?) 35mm that I owned, purchased in 1974. I stayed with it and a 24mm (2.8), 50mm (1.8) and the 100mm (2.8) until about 4 years ago. With EBAY, I then expanded to the following:

OM-1N, OM-2N, OM-2SP (3 bodies) and an OM-4T.

16mm, 18mm, 21mm (3.5), 28mm (2.8, 2.0), 35mm (2.8, 2.0), 50mm (3.5 macro), 85mm, 100mm (2.0), 135mm (2.8), 180mm (2.8), 200mm (4.0), 300mm (4.5) and 500mm (mirror).

35-70mm (3.6), 35-105mm, 75-150mm, 85-250mm.

I have gradually begun to cycle the bodies through both John and Clint for CLA's (they emerge wonderfully!).

With my fairly recent plunge into RFs, my focus is primarily on my M6, but I still make the foray with a selection of my OM gear. The 18mm and 100mm F2 are exquisite lenses.

If only I could make my day job disappear!
 
I realized later yesterday that I also have the 28/3.5 and the 35-70/3.5-4.5. This last one is pretty darn good, I must say, notwithstanding its unimpressive specs. Someone suggested it to me as being the best of the 35-70 Zuikos.

Who are John and Clint? I'm guessing one is Camtech, but I'm not familiar with other Olympus specialists. I'm very interested in getting the OM-2 bodies tuned up. Thanks.
 
If your OM1 is less than 655xxx

If your OM1 is less than 655xxx

Loaded up a Fchrom100 Sat am for fall colour, good this year.

I noticed that there were marks at bottom of viewfinder field just outside frame, the dreaded foam was eating my pentaprism...

Bear with sore head remainder of week end.

Then I discovered that the OM-10 (different name in USA) has same prism so all I need is a parts OM10, pretty cheap at camera fairs.

The morale is you need to make sure your OM-1 has had its top off if it is <655xxx I thought I was safe and this was a high number and immune - so wrong.

Noel

P.S Managed to lose a Oly origional screw on 28mm hood as well.
 
Hi folks,

I had no idea there was this much fasination with Oly gear, my first Camera, inherited from my father when he died many years ago was a 20 year old OM-1 with the 50 1.8, the collection has grown since then even into macro flashes and the like.

Of all of them the 85 f2 is my favourite, I call it my magic lens, nothing takes years off a face like it.

PS I'm looking for a 24mm if anyone has one

Marcus
 
The Zuiko 100mm/2.8 is also one of my favorites. Here's one example from it:
 

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I have been using an OM-1 from somewhere 1992 untill 1997. Took it with me to the US when I was studying there, used it for assignments when studying uindustrial design and so on. I am in the process of scanning my images digitally (using a Minolta Dual Scan IV), but I'd like to post some examples.

Are there special sections here for that, or does everyone opens a thread? I will pôst them here, since this is an OM-1 thread, hope the topic starter dos not mind. As far as lenses go, all was - if I recollect correctly - shot with the Vivitar 28-90 lens - except the DoF picture - that would have been with a 'harminoca kind of thing that allows macro' (dont know the English term).

This would be me - 10 years ago (still thinking Elvis WAS alive).
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Dirt on the picture is due to bad negative storage:

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Long before I had even heard from the term: Bokeh , it was just called DoF back then.
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Lillo: small fortified town outside of Antwerp (Belgium), in the middle of the harbour and petrochemical industry - not seen on the picture:
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1015: Nice! The "accordian thing" is a bellows. You can post in your gallery space here, too.

BTW, are you suggesting Elvis is not alive? That's going to be a shock to a lot of RFF members. Memphis, do you have any such information?
 
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