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Post by rono on Dec 1, 2016 21:51:44 GMT -5
Thanks I'll have to check the two I have. Though I'll probably not try to find both.
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Post by rono on Dec 1, 2016 21:48:44 GMT -5
Rono, The only difference between two FTL variations is that one has a thick meter readout pointer needle visible in the VF and the other's pointer needle is thin. Hope it answers your question.
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Post by rono on Nov 28, 2016 15:59:47 GMT -5
I'm curious about the differences in the FTL's?
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Post by rono on Aug 15, 2016 22:46:18 GMT -5
Just to be complete. I have all the other "pro" OM's from the M-1 to the 4t in both black and chrome as issued. I essentially collect the OM system. Cameras lenses and accessories.
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Post by rono on Aug 10, 2016 20:52:52 GMT -5
No not an impulse buy for sure. Every time an OM-3t comes up I have to think long and hard. Especially since it would complete my collection. Hate to admit it but I have not put film through my OM-3. Should remedy that this summer. Yep the Pen's, OM's, and XA sure make Maitani look great. All just fun cameras to take pictures with.
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Post by rono on Aug 10, 2016 10:22:04 GMT -5
Have an almost complete set of the "pro" OM's, from the M-1 to the OM-4t. Missing only a OM-3t. (Any one have one and get rid of it on the cheep? ). Never liked the OM-2sp. Still shoot my original OM-1n and OM-2n's on occasion. But my favorite to shoot are the OM-4(t)'s Amazing metering system. First used it on a winter trip to Craters of the Moon in Idaho. White snow, black or dark red rock, blue sky and white cloud. Took spot readings on the snow, rock and blue sky, camera did the rest of the work. All great exposures.
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Post by rono on Aug 10, 2016 10:09:16 GMT -5
I have collected a number of different Baja cases most recently a case that hold three TDC stereo slide cartridges anyone have any information about the company it self? Would love to find a catalog of there products. Google just finds numerous items, but nothing about the company it self. Thanks Ron
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Post by rono on Apr 17, 2016 6:28:29 GMT -5
Beautiful cameras!
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Post by rono on Mar 18, 2016 9:52:05 GMT -5
I don't price cameras as much any more only looking for an OM-3t. But lens prices ate interesting to follow. For a while after the release of the OM-D's prices went dramatically up. What I've noticed are more listings from Japan. I only look at the more rare f2's etc . price s seem a bit more reasonable though still very expensive. Any others notice more from Japan?
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Post by rono on Dec 17, 2015 5:34:11 GMT -5
Yes do use slide film. They do use a viewer to see in stereo. They are like the view master's but much larger image and one view at a time. Some people scan them and convert them to be seen on a computer with red/blue glasses. To much work and never look as good. I have played with a stereo projector, where the projected image is view with polarizing glasses. Not as great as a viewer but still pretty cool
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Post by rono on Dec 13, 2015 14:54:51 GMT -5
I shoot with a Stereo Realist and a TDC Colorist on a fairly regular basis. The images are fascinating, wish stereo would catch on again.
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Post by rono on Sept 8, 2015 6:52:34 GMT -5
Great pictures. When I first look at them together I like the b&h, but when I look at them individually I liked the color much better.
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Post by rono on Sept 3, 2015 23:13:53 GMT -5
Your story sounds very familiar. I started with the Olympus OM-1n and 2n and have been addicted to them ever since. Went through a long period of frankly not shooting very much because I didn't want to start over with either Canon or Nikon digital SLR's. Finally when Olympus came out with the E-5** cameras. I started to think digital. The photographer that took my daughters high school graduation pics with an E-510 and they looked and printed great. Took the plunge. I missed the great focusing screens and viewfinder of the OM's for my Olympus manual focus lenses but like the new Zuiko digital lenses a lot. Went to the OM-D when it first came out. Much easier to use my collection of manual focus Zuiko's. Like digital for color especially the ease of printing. But recently I've been shooting a least half of my photography with film. Love the field camera.
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Post by rono on Jun 29, 2015 21:04:18 GMT -5
Have a few lots of half-frame slides they hold up pretty well. Both sets contain a quite a few pictures of military bases. They would have been a perfect camera for guys in the military traveling around. Small size and a incredible number of pictures per roll so would have been cheaper to shoot. I think the half frame was more popular in the pacific region and europe.
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Post by rono on Jun 26, 2015 21:36:13 GMT -5
Finally found a copy of John Fosters book Olympus pen SLR HalF-Frame System Cameras. Wow, amazing book, wish some one would create one for the OM system. Own just a PEN FT and a few lenses. Just added a Olympus 38mm f2.8 enlarging lenses to my collection. When I first saw it I thought it was a misidentified 38mm macro lens, but closer inspection it was an enlarging lens. I first saw it on a system diagram in a very early M-1 OM-1 brochure. Did find info about it in John Foster's book sounds like an amazing lens for 1/2 frame negatives. Now need to find a lens board for my Bessler MX 45. This and a half frame projector are my cool PEN F accesories. Any other Pen F enthusiasts.
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