At 16:51 -0600 11/18/03, Jay Maynard wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:47:09PM -0700, F. Alfredo Rego wrote:
>> Just as HP removes from the world the joy of the hp3000 (with or without
>> that pesky "e" in the name), Olympus brings joy to the world with the
>> Olympus e-1 SLR digital camera.  Just in time, too, to compensate for
>> the great loss that humanity suffered on October 31, 2003.
>
>Heh. I've had that joy for a while now: I purchased my Olympus E-10 new at
>B&H Photo on September 12, 2001.

Were you physically at the New York City store?  That was quite a date...


>I've shot about 5500 pictures with it.
>It's been one fantastic piece of photo gear. My one complaint is that 35mm
>equivalent (or 28mm with the wide adapter) isn't wide enough for some things
>I do, and so I've kept my OM system around as well.

I have kept ALL of my OM systems too.  Those who attended the
hp3000 International Users Group Conference in Montreux (Switzerland)
in 1980 may remember the background for the Adager booth.  I took
that picture (hiking on the hills above Antigua Guatemala) with an
Olympus OM-2 and had it enlarged via a 3M process to billboard size.
That was quite an elaborate technology in those days.


>I'll look at the E-1 when I get some spare cash...

I am *generating* some cash with my Olympus e-1.  In fact, I have already
been retained for a photographic commission in early December.  I would
rather ask "would you like to smile or frown with that?" than "would
you like fries or onion rings with that?"  For outdoor work, I prefer
to ask "would you like to have the mountain lion in the background,
or the bear, or the beaver, or the elk, or just some forest?"

Clicking away -- at the e-3000 keyboard as well as at the (very responsive)
Olympus e-1 shutter --, I remain an ardent fan of both technologies,

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 |  A            |  Sun Valley, Idaho 83353-3000            U.S.A.
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