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- From: daveb@Ingres.COM (Dave Brower, DBMS hack, [510] 748-3418)
- Subject: Re: Olympus OM1 lens recomm
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.074224.2271@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Originator: daveb@lotus
- Keywords: lens
- In-reply-to: jtg0707@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jui Tien)
- Reply-To: daveb@lotus (Dave Brower, DBMS hack, [510] 748-3418)
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 07:42:24 GMT
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- OM lenses are pretty easy to find at reasonable prices, if you shop
- used. A likely source of ad is the "Shutterbug" magazine, available
- at many large newstands and some photo stores.
-
- A "safe" choice might also be one of the Tamron "adaptall" lenses,
- which take replaceable adaptors for many makes. You should be able to
- get those easily new from most mail-order places, eg: Camera World of
- Oregon, recommended highly in this list. This seems like a bad idea
- to me, because they are big compared to the OM lenses, and aren't
- autofocus if you suspect you'll move that way later.
-
- (Also note that there are OM to Minolta Maxxum mount adaptors, letting
- you use OM lenses on those autofocus bodies. But you'd want an
- autofocus lenses on an autofocus body)
-
- For type of lens, think about the lens you lost, and how it fit with
- your photo style, real or imagined.
-
- It seems like snapshooters are into modest zoom lenses, wide-angle to
- modest telephoto, with modest aperatures. Examples are 35-70
- f3.5-4.5, or 28-135. The 70-210 range seems a bit long and bulky for
- snapshots, where some wide angle is often called for. Zooms tend to
- be bigger and heavier than equivalent fixed lenses, but of course you
- need fewer of them. Their slow speed often makes hand-held available
- light shots hard to do, but if you always have a flash or shoot when
- it's 'sunny f/16' that won't be a problem.
-
- I've been expanding my OM stuff over the last 18 months, having
- decided Nikon was too pricey for my blood. It's fairly easy to find
- used stuff in Shutterbug and at camera shows/swap meets, though not
- with the vast quantity of Nikon stuff. So far I have only fixed focal
- length Zuiko lenses, 24/2.8, 50/1.8, 135/3.5, and 180/2.8. This keeps
- the camera small and light to operate. The 135 is essentially
- worthless. I've also decided never to buy a lens slower than f/2.8
- again, since they are dimmer and don't hold value used very well. I
- had and lost a 28, and the replacement 24 is much more to my taste. A
- superwide (wider than 28mm) is an awful lot of fun, since you can
- really put foreground things in context, and get very stretched clouds
- in the sky.
-
- If you aren't picky about quality, you can get a decent third party
- snapshooter zoom at a swap meet for $70 easily. I just passed on a
- 35-80 Tamron (or was it a Sigma?) the other day. Really off-brands
- can be had for $30-50 if you negotiate a little.
-
- good luck,
- -dB
-
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