Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ok, I >KNOW< I should stay off the olympus thread....those people who use those funny little cameras are like a bunch of snake handling fundamentalists at a tent revival....BUT!!! I was around in l978-79....Olympus had just pawned off bunches of their "lightweights" on the UPI "boys"----I used to string for them, and knew some of the Houston crowd..... Now bear in mind, these guys could reduce a Nikon F to rubble in less than a year.....the M4 is a wimp as far as ruggedness compared to an F.......ya know what? Those damn Olympi (hehe) came apart like three-dollar-watches......Good glass? YES..... small and light? YES.....but put them in day to day news service, that's the end!!! Now, I know there's someone out there waiting for me, who's gonna claim to have shot 10 rolls a day in rain/dust/mud storms, with the same OM-1 that saved him from a stray bullet in '73....you know the story.....bring it on... Walt On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 raimo.korhonen@pp2.inet.fi wrote: > > From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net> > > > <snip> > > When they say T they are not talking about > > titanium paint. > > How true! I have examined one used OM-4Ti which did not have > much titanium left - and the titanium layer was indeed much thinner > than paint. If the OMs were more robust they might have a stronger > position among the professionals. > All the best! > Raimo > > Photos at: http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen >