Jim,
Keep it up. I'll be happy to pass my 'zuikoholic target' that I seem to
wear on my back to you...
Tom
P.S. very nice purchases, by the way. You'll LOVE the 35-70/3.5-4.5. My
second most used lens (behind the 90/2).
> I mentioned to the list a couple of weeks ago the here-to-for unseen OM-4T
> plus assorted lenses that appeared in my local paper's classifieds. Well,
> after much wringing of hands and struggling to meet up with the seller, we
> finally made the deal this passed Saturday. As it turns out, the
equipment
> consists of a pristine black OM-4T (he estimates that it's had maybe 20
> rolls of film through it), a virtually new 28/2.8, ditto 85/2, slightly
more
> used 200/4, and now for the kicker... he showed up with a 35-70/3.5-4.5
and
> a decent case for it all. I had originally planned on offering the gent a
> little less than his asking, but when I saw the extras (zoom and case,
plus
> a couple of filters), I tried to get him to let it all go for his
advertised
> price. Wound up getting it for $100 over what he had initially been
asking
> for the body and the 28mm and 85mm. Am I allowed to gloat over this
one????
> The body, in particular, is spectacular.
>
> I can now officially consider myself a zuikoholoic, as I've always had the
> bodies, just skimpy in the zuiko lens department (a 50/1.4 that was on my
> initial OM-1 purchased through the Air Force exchange in Japan 24 years
> ago). Is this where my condition goes from chronic to epidemic
proportions?
>
> Grinning, albeit a little lighter in the billfold,
> Jim Timpe
> Fluke Customer Support Services
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> Everett, WA 98203
> 1.800.753.5853
>
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