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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Pradovit
From: John Hudson <jahudson@direct.ca>
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 21:48:06 -0800

At 08:48 PM 08-02-99 -0800, Donal Philby <donalphilby@earthlink.net> wrote:

>Have you ever used the 24 tilt/shift Olympus lens??
>
>donal
>
>Robinsnes@aol.com wrote:
>
>> I have an OM 2n that is one of 3 olympus slr's I own. The others are
venerable
>> OM1's and they are wonderful in size and performance. The OM2 is an
aperture
>> preferred automatic with off the film metering. It is automatic out to 2
or 4
>> minutes, I forget which but it is a long time. This is the most
unbelievable
>> night camera every made. It is the size of a Leica M, is uncluttered with
>> blinkinlights (a barbaric invention), and is easy to use and carry. You may
>> like it enough that she won't get to use it much. The auto program with
slide
>> film in my OM2 has always been amazingly accurate. I have finally
learned to
>> trust that, and only that, camera auto meter.
>> I can't say enough good about the OM
>> Roger
>
>--
>Donal Philby
>San Diego
>www.donalphilby.com

......any relationship to Kim ! ......just kidding!!

jh