Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Olympus OM cameras
From: John Hudson <jahudson@direct.ca>
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 21:28:12 -0800

At 11:54 PM 08-02-99 -0500, Tom Bryant <tbryant@pars5.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:

>Hi Joe,
>
>    Well, I *did* mention the OM-1 system, perhaps in passing:
>
>                      (outside of the Olympus OM series)
>
>    They were and are phenomenal cameras.  You could see the whole screen
with
>glasses on, they were tiny, compared to, say a Nikon FTn, almost as quiet as
>an Alpa, and they had interchangeable screens.  My brother still has one, and
>loves it.  They do focus the "Leica" way.
>
>    Two of my friends who bought them later had them break on them.  This
>tainted my appreciation of them.  Perhaps these 2 bodies were part of an
early
>run with mechanical problems, much like today's R8.  So I never owned one,
and
>can't give a first hand report on them.

I have been an M3 user since 1965 and an M5 user since 1988 and an Olympus
OM 4T user since January 1999. My OM 4T does not disappoint and that is
said after having looked very carefully into the Leica R series opportunities.

jh