> Jane Waters wrote:
> Especially an OM1.... that has to have been the lightest slr 
> that was ever created.... I loved mine. Oh, the heady days
> of film cameras...

I still love (and use) mine. :-)

Damage was more a case of its compact, metallic soul, whilst
in flight, suddenly gaining transient memory of a former
capacity - a "previous life" if you will - as the cutting
edge of a chainsaw, and the gravity if its sitation giving
it a taste for bloodwood. A metal corner sunk its toothiness
into the Tassie plank, and then its memory passed and
it became inert again, just leaving a scar on my flooring.

The wood bent, but the metal didn't.

It's my meditative "OMmmmmmmm" camera, when I sometimes need
to go back to simpler, less convenient and less instant things,
to get my head back into the right photographic groove. 

(and it has such a delightfully bright viewfinder!)

...but enough from me about the non-EOS. The OM1 is a "state
of mind" thing for me; an exercise that increases the personal
"value" of my EOS 10D, which I use by far the majority of the
time. For me, personally, they're different but complementary
worlds with the same destination.

Cheers,
Marc (big on enthusiasm, but short on talent)
Sydney, Oz
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