Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Craig wrote: "So, does anybody else have an M-sized Olympus OM as his/her "second" 35mm camera?" Kit responds, with glee: I do, I do! My first camera was not an Olympus OM-1, but a Yashica, but I quickly learned that an OM-1 was a Very Cool Camera Indeed, especially in 1977. So that's where my real outfit started. At 17, I worked myself silly during high school and the summer before college to get an OM-1, a 50mm f/1.4. A few years later, I had a 28mm f/2, and then a 200mm f/4, and a motor winder, and soon after, another OM-1 body. I still have them, oh, and a flash I've never used, and a bellows I used lots! I still have all that stuff in a nice big fat bag in the studio. They served me very well until I fell over a Hasselblad one day and hurt myself, and then woke up, realized what an M was, carried a Leica brochure around with me for years, drooling over the pictures, and then decided to become a dealer. The rest is "herstory." ;-) Kit