"A whole different feel..." Hellsfire! I may end up thinking those Olys are nothing but bricks, like the Argus C-3, and put BOTH of 'em back on eBay! Sharpness isn't everything! No, I'll give them an honest chance first. But I suspect it doesn't matter if they're gone before my OptioS comes in. <g> Give me more time to concentrate on the Altoid camera...
keith Joe Wilensky wrote: > > I had an Olympus 35SP for a while, too -- beautiful lens and a beautiful > camera. It's huge, though -- much larger than the Oly 35RD and 35RC, and > larger than the Canonet QL17 GIII. > The 35SP is also quite loud, at least for a rangefinder. The 35RD and 35RC, > as well as rangefinders like the Canonet and Konica Auto S3, are very quiet. > > The 35SP has a program mode, but it doesn't let you know what shutter speed > and aperture it has selected. Manual metering is possible, as is the useful > spot metering, but you still have to read the EV scale in the viewfinder > and transfer it to the camera. > > In the end, I realized that the 35SP was pretty much the same size as an > MX/ME Super with a 50/1.7 lens. I traded the 35SP. I still have a 35RC, > which is truly tiny, and a lovely old Olympus 35-S from the late '50s > (thanks, Keith!), which has a whole different feel from the '70s rangefinders. > > Joe > > At 05:50 PM 1/24/03 -0500, you wrote: > >>The Zuiko-G f/1.7 is legend for it's sharpness. > > > >(...) > > > >>What's the coating problem? Ghosting, loss of light, flaring? > >> > >>keith > > > >One solution is to use a shade, which, as you know, is tricky for a RF > >because you see part of it in the viewfinder. [...]
