OM, I've become a Zuikoholic!

paulfish4570 said:
you om/zuiko fans seem to be a fun, self-effacing lot ... 🙂
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We know how to party, yeah...

Well, more specifically, Leica/Zeiss/Insert-exclusive-brand-here fans have the continuous angst of knowing they are using the best of the best, the most expensive of the most expensive, and have to prove it all the time. Olympus OM fans know they are using a dead system, lenses designed in the 1970s. We got over it.

We can focus on the fun side of photography and our tools, the character instead of the performance, and generally just have a jolly good time with beautiful but old little cameras slug over our shoulders.

Oh, and we'sa likes our superiour viewfinders. Viewfinders - very important. Yes, indeed.
 
Oh, Greg, that (back problem) is truly a bummer. I really hope you can get it cleared up for good. I've found a good physical therapist to be a help with issues like that, but it may require more than that, so I'm pulling for you.

(And thanks for the green light! 😀 )
 
pggunn said:
If it's ok with her, it's ok with me!
🙂

BTW, something has happened to me. I suffered a back injury in an accident twelve years ago and it came back with a vengeance earlier this week.

I can barely walk now and have been confined to bed for the most part.
I've been living on painkillers and muscle relaxers for two days now.

I'm going back to bed. Now's your chance! 😀
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Wow...must be something in the North Carolina air. I've been out of work all week with ringing ear & dizziness. Sucks being bed ridden & 60+ deg. and finally some sunshine outside. Get well soon to us both. I think I still have your ph# Some weekend we'll have to get together so I can check out that OM.🙂
 
philosomatographer said:
We know how to party, yeah...

Well, more specifically, Leica/Zeiss/Insert-exclusive-brand-here fans have the continuous angst of knowing they are using the best of the best, the most expensive of the most expensive, and have to prove it all the time. Olympus OM fans know they are using a dead system, lenses designed in the 1970s. We got over it.

We can focus on the fun side of photography and our tools, the character instead of the performance, and generally just have a jolly good time with beautiful but old little cameras slug over our shoulders.

Oh, and we'sa likes our superiour viewfinders. Viewfinders - very important. Yes, indeed.
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Well said.
Except I never thought of OM as a dead system.
With hundreds of body+lens+accessory parts available not counting third-party manufacturers, the OM manual SLR is a *completed* system.

And now in the digital era, the zuiko lenses are far from being dead, these are taking pictures for lots of folks every day.

We OM fans choose to celebrate a complete and beautiful system regardless how ordinary it seems to others.
 
Hi, Rick. "...a completed system." (That's how I feel these waning days).

Even more antiquated than an OM system, I have a complete Pentax Spotmatic system with six M42 screwmount lenses and three bodies! Oddly, everything still works.

Ted
 
Actually, Paul, you do have a point. There's no reason why OM's and Spotmatics shouldn't just keep soldiering on. Build quality is sturdy, design is what one critic called simple elegance, and there are lots of folks out there who can do CLA's on both systems. If I had it to do over again I'd do it with OM's simply because of the bayonet mount and the slightly smaller size. I think the glass in both systems is probably equal.
 
Two more 180/2.8 shots taken Sat (Tmax 100, Rodinal 1:100):

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Roland.
 
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