Music & Photography

Well, I'm a "physician visiting this site", and I think the link has much more to do with boys toys tha anything physiological. That doesn't mean that it is not a sickness.

It looks like I will have to do a similar trawl through the mags and stockpile a couple. As you say,they last for years !

Luckily for me,on this occasion I have been rescued by my father who just happened to have a brand new battery.

He used to have an OM1 and then went on to an OM2 (...I think that he likes the OM's as well !...and he used to teach photography.)

Interesting note on the zinc/air alternatives,I will bear this in mind.

Thanks for the info.

Regards

Chris

I have a Nikon FG with a 28-70 +Macro Tamron

Not using currently as in attepting to get a damaged aperture lever repaired managed to get the lever repaired (I think accidently) but now the light meter seems to be buggered. This whole process took a few months to happen so I have currently given up photography. Once I finished paying for my hifi maybe I will get a replacement body.

Back to work.... hahahaha!

Matthew

Wow, surprised to see all those Olympuses out there ! What great taste ! I also run OMs having bought an OM1 in 1977, OM2 in 1979 (s/h) and OM4 in 1983, together with Zuikos 24/50/75-150/300.

Question. Why have Olympus (or anyone else FTM) not produced a digital back to take all our SLR lenses ? Is is the technology, or the marketing ?

Anybody know ?

(sorry for getting a bit off the forum here)

Sounds good to me.

yet more OM chat - As far as digital backs for the OM series I think Olympus gave up on the OMs the best part of 10 years ago. If you think about all the fab and (forgive the pun) fucussed kit they produced in the 70s and into the 80s - it was as small as possible while still able to do the job, nothing superflous, rugged, with real thought spent on the design - how about making as many of your lenses as possible with the same 49mm filter thread. The last real advance was the OM4ti and the all speeds F280 flash.

I'm sure the OM3ti is a lovely camera but it strikes me as a bit of a cynical introduction - except for the flash metering it doesn't add much to the OM1 from 20-odd years before.

I think Nikon had a great strategy of keeping their traditional users happy (common lens mount FM3, etc) while keeping up with the autofucus and digital technology and keeping it backward compatible. Olympus just switched their emphasis to compacts and their bigger 'glorified compact' SLRs. At least there's still heaps of reasonably priced 2nd hand Oly kit around. But I don't know what I'll do when my kit dies - there's just nothing as small and 'tactile' any more.

Phil