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From: jeff@tesla.UUCP (Jeff Frey)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Recommendations
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Date: Fri, 30-Sep-83 14:59:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 30 14:59:46 1983
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For the basic question, color slides outdoors or people indoors (e.g.,
candids at weddings, etc.) the question of SLR vs. rangefinder didn't
get discussed.  Actually although I have an olympus OM2 with various lenses
my own best color slides AND people slides (or B&W negs) seem to get taken
with an RF camera, either a Leica M2 or a CL.  I also have a CLE
(automatic exposure) but it does seem rather complicated; I have to work
it out more.

For the OM2 I have 21, 28, 35-70, 75-150, and 400mm lenses, all Olympus
except for the 400, the classic slow Spiratone (thank goodness color
films are getting faster!)  Haven't used, or even owned, a 50mm lens
for years; the best all-around combination seems (for me) to be the
28 and 75-150 for the SLR, and a 28 and 90 for the RF.  I like to
travel light, too.  Now that Olympus has a small 40/2 I might try that
instead of the 28--it's smaller.  Pentax makes a 45/2.8 for the ME line
that's extremely compact and light and is a good all-round lens but it
seems to be rare in this country. Incidentally I've used the ME and
would find it a good subsitute for the OM, although not as robust and
elegant (or expensive).  Once again, they seem to have overdone it with
the ME Super.

I got the 35-70 f3.8 because it seemed reasonable as a fill-in between
the 28 and 75-150 but it's too big and heavy for my taste.  It's
practically new and I'll accept offers for it at 607-256-4075.

Incidentally, one definite recommendation is to buy good lenses; you
really can tell.  My Leitz lens photos seem perceptibly sharper than
those I take with other makes on the RF; the Olympus fixed lenses
are perceptibly sharper than the zooms.  There's more to it than
just how well-made (or finished) the mounts are.

Jeff