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Olympus OM series Cameras 1974 to 1994 |
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OM1n MD Purchased this body in
1974. It was my first new camera since high school Light years ahead of my
old Miranda system. Got it with the
50mm f1.8 lens. The “N” was slightly
later version that had an attached hot shoe.
The “MD” indicated that it has removable cover on base plate that
allowed a motor or auto winder to be attached. Exposure is through the
lens, manual match the needle type.
With shutter and aperture controls at the base of the lens, you could
quickly adjust both as needed. STATUS: retired to display
case |
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Auto Winder OK, the body was intended to accept a motor drive, but that was
too much money. Then they release a
simple auto winder. Push the button,
takes a photo, film moves on to next frame.
WOW Just no automatic firing. STATUS: retired to display case |
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OM2n MD This was the next body.
The big thing here was automatic exposure system. The camera read the light coming through
the lens onto the film, using the light reflected from the film and/or silver
dots pattern on shutter curtain. When
enough light got there, the meter decides when to shut the shutter. It did
give an estimate of the required shutter speed before pressing the shutter
button. However as Olympus pointed out, if the light changed during exposure,
say someone fired a flash, it took that into consideration. It uses the same system for the flash
system when using the correct flash gun. STATUS: sold |
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Olympus G. Zuiko 55mm F1.2
lens When I got the OM-2n body, I got a new lens, the very fast f1.2
lens. Remember the days of slow film.
This made the nature light exposures much easier. Big front element. STATUS: sold |
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Olympus G. Zuiko 35mm F2
lens Then I needed a wider angle lens. And it should be fast so I got this
one. Little else to say. It worked as moderate wide angle STATUS: sold |
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Vivitar series 1 35-85 f2.8 Now this was an interesting lens.
Moderate wide angle to semi telephoto. Mid to later 1970’s. This lens was sort of the one lens
solution. Now the range of latter
28-200, but still not a bad travel and single lens to leave on the
camera. Their big idea here was
instead of trying to keep focus and zoom the lens. You zoomed to desired and then focused. By doing so they could concentrate on
sharpness and not overly complicating the design. It worked.
If you look at the photo you see the curved focus lines, as you moved
forward with the control ring, you had to turn focus (same ring) to the left. STATUS: sold |
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Tamron 80-210 f3.8-4 adapt all lens A more powerful telephoto that what I had with earlier systems. This
lens worked well at car races, and other sporting events. Push forwards backwards to zoom, rotate to focus. The adapt all system uses a “T” mount like
adapter but connect aperture information to the body’s light meter STATUS: sold |
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Spiratone 18mm f3.5 lens This was at the time a serious wide angle lens. Ordered by mail from a New York city
store. It worked. What else can I say.
STATUS: sold |
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Olympus right angle variable magnification finder This finder allows one to view the
image while camera is on a copy stand, or where you are shooting at very low
angles. It also as either full screen
view, or magnify the centre part of the screen for find focus adjustment. This finder also fits some of the
older Canon 1D series bodies, and this was kept when I sold the OM gear STATUS: Active |
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Olympus T32 Flash unit with Bounce
Grip Having got the OM-2 which supported through the lens flash control, one
needed to get a suitable flash. The
T32 was my choice. It could operate
either as TTL auto on the OM2, or by flipping the rear cover slide around to
show the numbers, it could be used with the OM1 or other bodies With the big grip it used 4 type C batteries. The cables provided the TTL light metering
control (bottom cable), and the upper cable remoted the shutter release to
the flash grip. The flash could also
be mounted on the flash shoe of the body, running on smaller AA batteries. The front lens could tilt up or down as needed for bounce and close up
photos. Guide number 32 in metres, 104 in feet for ISO 100. STATUS: sold |
