OM, I've become a Zuikoholic!

paulfish4570 said:
thanks, Greg, but don't send it to me. i am not a tele or extreme macro guy.
i tell you, for $69, this cam is a work of industrial art. a 24/2.8 or 28/2.8 will finish my olympus kit. this rascal feels more at home in my hands than anything else i've tried ...
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me neither...well once in a while! I'll hang on to it might find an Oly to go with it one day or give it away for the Christmas thing next year.🙂
 
Monday I got a package in the mail. I sent John Hermanson two basket case OM 1's and he made one good one out of it.

Now I much prefer a Nikon F or a Leica M having used them for many years but this little camera is nice and I can see why it has been so popular over the years. I've got a roll of film in it now and look forward to the results

John H. also does very nice work.

Joe
 
black Olympus Om-1 pre-md 1973 . mij-50 f1.8. this one is not calibrated for 1.5volt battery, i have to use an adapter MR-9 with a silver oxide sr44. works great!

 
I finally sent out my M6 for repairs and this was, surprise surprise, the excuse I was waiting for to buy my first om - thanks only to this thread. It's a 2n and I'm expecting it in the mail next week, with 50/1.8 on it. I also bought a 35/2.8, since I have a 50 sum on my M and currently no way I can afford a 35mm for Leica.

I can really hardly wait to try them, and the wait is getting worse and worse within the hour while I read this thread in expectation, from page 1. I'm currently on page 52 🙂 Have to hurry though, since from tomorrow I'll spend most of the days at Berlinale...

Anyway, thanks guys for all the wisdom and advice here. And I think I can already understand the Zuikoholism - before even getting the first om camera and with already 2 lenses on the way, I find myself lusting for another: 85/2... This is not good, I enjoyed being a one camera/one lense guy 🙂
 
The 85/2.0 is a gem and, even at its currently high prices, still a bargain in the grand scheme.

The problem is you are likely to fall into a monogamous relationship with the OM.

(OM-sick since 1975)
 
welcome, "I enjoyed being a one camera/one lense guy " myself, becareful not to collect to much lenses that's how i ended up with four bodies! 😉
 
Yes, from all the samples I saw the 85/2.0 looks simply gorgeous. And it's light and small! But also rare at the moment, it seems, as I can only see one being on sale in Europe (looking on *bay).

I'm really curious about om, I like absolutely everything I read about it. Still, maybe monogamy is behind me - I'm completely in love with my M6 and I'm a faithful kind of guy. But then lots of zuikoholics here wrote that om and M work very well together.
 
I know, first lenses then bodies to put lenses on. I never change lenses when I'm out shooting, too lazy for that. How many cameras do I want to carry? Two, in rare instances maybe three. That should be my limit when buying, I think.
 
wblynch said:
The 85/2.0 is a gem and, even at its currently high prices, still a bargain in the grand scheme.
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It's worth whatever you pay for it. 🙂 Small and light as a large aperture 50mm lens, optically very well performing, well built as all other OM Zuikos... I enjoy using mine lots.

bk1970 said:
Yes, from all the samples I saw the 85/2.0 looks simply gorgeous. And it's light and small! But also rare at the moment, it seems, as I can only see one being on sale in Europe (looking on *bay).
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It never really was that common, I believe. But it's true, right now they are not very easy to come by. And if you do, they usually are a tad more expensive to be had than they used to be.

bk1970 said:
I find myself lusting for another: 85/2... This is not good, I enjoyed being a one camera/one lense guy 🙂
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Having recently acquired a second specimen of the OM 85/2.0 in better condition than my original one, I am planning to pass on my OM MC 85/2.0 in B condition (optically good, has seen some use on the barrel) to someone else.
If anyone's interested, I would be more than happy to sell it to a fellow RFFer rather than dumping it on the evilBay. 🙂
 
All the chatting 'bout it made me feel guilty not to have shared a picture in a while. So, here it goes.

Aforementioned 85/2.0 wide open or at around f 2.8
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Two from another gem, the 24/2.8 (here at f 2.8 or f 4.0)
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24/2.8 at 4.0 or 5.6, if I remember correctly.
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You can also find above shots on my flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ftography/sets/72157629105203907/
 
After all those years taking pictures with OMs, I finally got to take picture of OM 🙂
I believe every zuikoholic in some point of decease reaches for his OM gear, places it on the black (important!) background and just clicks away 🙂 it's just one of symptoms of decease, we call it "mastering low key technics" to unaware watching public 😉

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Igor.Burshteyn said:
After all those years taking pictures with OMs, I finally got to take picture of OM 🙂
I believe every zuikoholic in some point of decease reaches for his OM gear, places it on the black (important!) background and just clicks away 🙂 it's just one of symptoms of decease, we call it "mastering low key technics" to unaware watching public 😉
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@Igor.Burshteyn:
A "disease" is something you may or may not be able to recover from. If you don't recover, then you "decease" and stop taking pictures altogether, since "decease" means die. To the best of my knowledge, Zuikoholism is not fatal (quite the opposite, actually).

That's a very nice picture.
 
decease and disease... one letter and the world of difference 🙂
Zuikoholism is recoverable (in some cases) and not terminal condition 🙂 definitely not a decease.
Chronic zuikoholism is characterized by sudden wish to picture OM gear and post it on rff 🙂
 
paulfish4570 said:
nice shooting house (schutzenhaus?), FT. you must live in hunting country ...
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Paul, do you consider Germany a hunting country?
(No history reference intended. 😀)
It's a shooting house near some protected nature area. Perhaps they wish to regulate the populations of animals there. No idea.
I don't live as close to the place, to know whether a lot of shooting is taking place.
 
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