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Originally Posted by dickr2
Harold Gough wrote:
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I have chosen (I'm not at all "stuck") to remain on 35mm because:
!) I have a huge range of lenses for 35mm, based on Olympus OM
2) I have virtually the full range of OM TTL flash units
3) I have two OM4 bodies, some of the best 35mm film bodies ever made
4) Only recently have I obtained the Tamron SP 400mm f4 after waiting
years for it. It goes with the 300mm f 2.8, various zooms and macros
(including OM bellows 80mm, 38mm & 20 mm auto bellows), OM 35mm & 24mm
shift lenses and Tamron SP down to ultra-wide angle zoom and primes.
5) I have an X-Pan with all the lenses. The format is stunning.
6) Digital does nothing extra I want to do and I just can't spare the
time for all that fiddling around. The exception is to sometime set up
my scanner for the trannies. I have little use for prints.
7) The cost of buying an equivalent kit for digital would cost a
fortune.
Same here. But all my bodies and lenses are for the old Canon FD system.
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I started with an A1, from new, but, apart from a 50mm lens and a 20mm bellows lens, I started building up a collection of Adaptall-2 lenses. They work as well on the OM systems as on the FD. I have kept my FD adapters and also any Nikon, etc., ones which came attached to subsequently-purchased used Tamron lenses, in case I got tempted by Nikon bodies. I never got into dedicated flash (no TTL metering) with Canon, using Vivitar & Sunpack, still possible to use for manual flash with any camera body.