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Article #624256Re: Computers, anyone?
From: Alfred Falk
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 21:55
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 21:55
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Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote in news:fpmf...@mid.individual.net: > On 2018-06-29, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > [38 lines snipped] > >> Getting ready to sell my Olympus in a garage sale, and there's a good >> possibility no one will want it. > > I'm afraid so. I traded in all my OM stuff a few years ago and went > Nikon, vowing never to spend another penny with Olympus, because they > stiffed their loyal OM customers when they went digital by changing the > lens mounting system, unlike Nikon, where decades old lenses can still > be used (with limitations) on digital bodies. I got a few pounds for 2 > OM2 bodies and a number of lenses that probably cost me many hundreds > of pounds. > >> I want to cry. That camera took wonderful >> pictures, even with my limited knowledge of appropriate settings, but >> dead-tree pictures are in the past now. > > Yep. Get used to it! > >> I think you can get good digital SLR cameras, but the cost is about >> the same as a good film camera, you're paying for the optics. > > Precisely. > > I saw someone using a portable CD player yesterday. Haven't seen one > of those for years, either. Saw some in a store just last week. I was a little surprized. My almost 30-year-old son prefers one over his iPod because it's a lot easier to replace the CD than to delete stuff to make room on his iPod.
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