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- Marlow, UK
I haven't pressed the shutter on an Olympus camera in almost twenty years, but I have a great deal of affection for the brand and I'm sorry to see this latest development. Even if it's not actually the end of the road for Olympus, it looks like terminal decline from here.
All of our family photos in the 1970s were taken on an Olympus Trip 35, a camera which I inherited from my father when he bought himself a 35 RD (which I now own). After that, the first camera I bought new was an OM-10, followed by an OM-2 and finally an OM-4. Of those, I kept the OM-2 for sentimental reasons. That was the best camera I ever owned, actually.
Along the way I also had a half-share in an XA-4 with my Dad, and also an autofocus AF-1.
In all, I used nothing but Olympus film cameras for about ten years, and I've never felt that I missed out by staying loyal to that one brand.
So I'm sorry to see the old firm pulling down the shutters for the last time, if that's what is happening.
-R
All of our family photos in the 1970s were taken on an Olympus Trip 35, a camera which I inherited from my father when he bought himself a 35 RD (which I now own). After that, the first camera I bought new was an OM-10, followed by an OM-2 and finally an OM-4. Of those, I kept the OM-2 for sentimental reasons. That was the best camera I ever owned, actually.
Along the way I also had a half-share in an XA-4 with my Dad, and also an autofocus AF-1.
In all, I used nothing but Olympus film cameras for about ten years, and I've never felt that I missed out by staying loyal to that one brand.
So I'm sorry to see the old firm pulling down the shutters for the last time, if that's what is happening.
-R
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