05th Jun 2009
Olympus OM SLRs
Except for that my mom’s been here for just about 4 days and been nagging me all day long, for the past few days I’ve been looking at the Olympus OM vintage SLR cameras a lot, mostly on Ebay. I’ve been wanting an Olympus OM 50mm f1.4 lens for quite a while (and the 50mm f1.8 as well even though I want the f1.4 more), and due to the fact that most of the auctions usually come with both the lens and the camera, I was exposed to the names of a few of Olympus’s vintage SLR cameras like the OM-1, OM-2, OM-4, and OM-10. Apparently the OM-4 was the king of all SLRs but then it costs almost $400 USD to get a nice quality one. On the other hand the OM-10 is cheap, costs less than $30 USD. But anyway the one I really want is the OM-1, which is a fully mechanical camera, meaning the camera operates fully without a battery! The drawback is that you’ll have to manually set the aperture and exposure, whereas the rest of the models all feature Aperture Priority therefore the camera can do all the settings for you. I still want the mechanical OM-1 though, just because it’s one of the oldest and greatest SLRs, and the fact that it doesn’t require a battery - really cool. I’ll probably be getting the OM-1 plus the 50mm F1.4 lens, if I’m lucky enough to come across one on Ebay…
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