Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, (BTW, I'm an Olympus OM and Pen FT user. ) You got a heck of a good deal. Black Pen FT's go for $400-700 on the open market with a standard lens. The Japanese buyers snap them up. I'm assuming that you got one of the standard lenses like the 40/1.4 and a100/3.5. The 100's only get about $125-175. I've got some pricing history on my Ebay history page at: http://www.skipwilliams.com/olympus/zuiko_ebay_min-max_graph.htm. Also I have a Pen resource page at http://www.skipwilliams.com/olympus/non_om.htm. They're nice cameras. Give me a call if you ever want to sell the black body. Skip At 07:32 PM 10/22/00 -0700, you wrote: >My Neighbor brought over an beautiful black Olympus Pen FT. in a paper bag >today >with two lenses to ask my opinion on it before she brought it to an auction. I >gave her an even 200 bucks for it. >A minute after she was gone i saw the 625 battery in it was leaking and i >thought i might have not come off as well. But I cleaned it out and put it an >extra one I use for my Rollei 35 and it works perfectly. >This camera is shaped like a Leica M but smaller. It is half frame 18x24 >otherwise known as single frame if you are a purist. It is flat on top, no >pentaprism. Sleak lines. >It has cleaned up to be >GORGEOUS! >I'VE ALWAYS wanted to get into Olympus Pen and half frame!! >A dark ground glass but I'm not bothered by it. >Designed by Maitani in the 60's. >Hawked by now less than W. Eugene Smith, see the htmls below. >Will take more lenses than any other camera ever made because of its shortest >*&^%$%# distance: >Nikon, Pentax you name it >including Leica M!!!!! >A complete system that looks like Nikon or Canon spread out. >The Zuiko Pen F lenses seem to be obtainable cheaply. >So much for loyalty. I have two mistresses now it seems. >But we'll see how this first roll of Delta 400 comes out. >I love shooting with it so far I've made 22 shots a third of a roll. >I need a half frame negative carrier for my D2. >I have the 38 mm 1.8 F. Zuiko Auto-S and the >100mm Auto-T >I feel like sending this to Stefan Daniel, Leica Product Director, at Leica to >see what he thinks of it. >I love the way when you hold the camera vertically you get a horizontal. >And as the lens is way off center to the left the whole camera is hidden in my >hand except for the lens and an inch worth of body on top of the lens when i >have it held vertically (for a horizontal shot). >With films as good as they are now and with Xtol I think halfframe is due >for a relook. >click click click 72 on a roll, turns my head around! I'm a new man! >Truly an SLR alternative for a hard core Leica M guy such as myself. The 38 >focuses a foot away. >4 feet to infinity at f16! >I think it will make for a different level of photography for me. >A 72 shots on a roll level of work. Loosen me up a little. >mark rabiner > > > >http://members.aol.com/xkaes/penf.htm >http://www.kyphoto.com/classics/pen.html >http://www.cameraquest.com/olypenf.htm