Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/20

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Subject: [Leica] Hey, Did I Call YOU a Republican? Now "who has an Olympus?"
From: kitmc at acmefoto.com (Kit McChesney)
Date: Thu May 20 19:05:46 2004

Craig wrote:

"So, does anybody else have an M-sized Olympus OM as his/her "second" 35mm 
camera?"

Kit responds, with glee:

I do, I do! My first camera was not an Olympus OM-1, but a Yashica, but I
quickly learned that an OM-1 was a Very Cool Camera Indeed, especially in
1977. So that's where my real outfit started. At 17, I worked myself silly
during high school and the summer before college to get an OM-1, a 50mm
f/1.4. A few years later, I had a 28mm f/2, and then a 200mm f/4, and a
motor winder, and soon after, another OM-1 body. I still have them, oh, and
a flash I've never used, and a bellows I used lots! I still have all that
stuff in a nice big fat bag in the studio. They served me very well until I
fell over a Hasselblad one day and hurt myself, and then woke up, realized
what an M was, carried a Leica brochure around with me for years, drooling
over the pictures, and then decided to become a dealer. The rest is
"herstory." ;-)

Kit


In reply to: Message from crgrbrts at verizon.net (Craig Roberts) ([Leica] Hey, Did I Call YOU a Republican?)