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35mm Film Cameras: Dinosaurs or Classics?

Ahlevah

Ahlevah

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Besides having CDs and vinyl records, I also have a few older film cameras. My favorite is an Olympus OM-1n 35mm, semi-automatic SLR. I have a soft spot in my heart for this camera, because I traveled all over the world with it: Europe, Asia, Latin America, Canada. It's in pristine condition, and I still have all of the original boxes and packaging (the cellophane wrappings and foam inserts) for the body and lenses. It's sat undisturbed, except for a short stint in a child's photography class, in a bedroom closet literally for decades. I'm trying to work up the courage to part with it, and yet somewhere in the back of my mind is this idea that I might enjoy taking it out for a spin again, like an old classic Jaguar XK150 or some such animal. So my question is: is there any practical reason to keep and use a 35mm camera?

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Olympus OM-1N – A blast from the past! – Freelance Wastrel
 
Ahlevah said:
Besides having CDs and vinyl records, I also have a few older film cameras. My favorite is an Olympus OM-1n 35mm, semi-automatic SLR. I have a soft spot in my heart for this camera, because I traveled all over the world with it: Europe, Asia, Latin America, Canada. It's in pristine condition, and I still have all of the original boxes and packaging (the cellophane wrappings and foam inserts) for the body and lenses. It's sat undisturbed, except for a short stint in a child's photography class, in a bedroom closet literally for decades. I'm trying to work up the courage to part with it, and yet somewhere in the back of my mind is this idea that I might enjoy taking it out for a spin again, like an old classic Jaguar XK150 or some such animal. So my question is: is there any practical reason to keep and use a 35mm camera?

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Olympus OM-1N – A blast from the past! – Freelance Wastrel
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I have two of them!

I bought one in the early 1980’s, I think Cheryl Tiegs was shilling them. I started skydiving and had a helmet rig built and added an auto winder and cable remote cord. When my dad passed in the early 1990’s I inherited his European model. Digital is so much more “instant gratification.”

You want to start a collection?....:mrgreen:
 
Ahlevah said:
Besides having CDs and vinyl records, I also have a few older film cameras. My favorite is an Olympus OM-1n 35mm, semi-automatic SLR. I have a soft spot in my heart for this camera, because I traveled all over the world with it: Europe, Asia, Latin America, Canada. It's in pristine condition, and I still have all of the original boxes and packaging (the cellophane wrappings and foam inserts) for the body and lenses. It's sat undisturbed, except for a short stint in a child's photography class, in a bedroom closet literally for decades. I'm trying to work up the courage to part with it, and yet somewhere in the back of my mind is this idea that I might enjoy taking it out for a spin again, like an old classic Jaguar XK150 or some such animal. So my question is: is there any practical reason to keep and use a 35mm camera?

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I find my personal enjoyment is practical reason enough to acquire or keep things.

Some of the things I've enjoyed the most & remembered the most in my life, have been the things I really should not have spent the often considerable sums of money on. Things that can't be justified in practical terms, but that I had a strong emotional pull towards. And when I finally got 'em, I loved 'em! And now that many are gone, I miss 'em.

Why not take it out for a spin, and see if you still enjoy it? That might tell you all you need to know.
 
Rexedgar said:
I have two of them!

I bought one in the early 1980’s, I think Cheryl Tiegs was shilling them. I started skydiving and had a helmet rig built and added an auto winder and cable remote cord. When my dad passed in the early 1990’s I inherited his European model. Digital is so much more “instant gratification.”

You want to start a collection?....:mrgreen:
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So, is this sort of a Canon AE1 competitor? Those babies were popular as hell!
 
Ahlevah said:
Besides having CDs and vinyl records, I also have a few older film cameras. My favorite is an Olympus OM-1n 35mm, semi-automatic SLR. I have a soft spot in my heart for this camera, because I traveled all over the world with it: Europe, Asia, Latin America, Canada. It's in pristine condition, and I still have all of the original boxes and packaging (the cellophane wrappings and foam inserts) for the body and lenses. It's sat undisturbed, except for a short stint in a child's photography class, in a bedroom closet literally for decades. I'm trying to work up the courage to part with it, and yet somewhere in the back of my mind is this idea that I might enjoy taking it out for a spin again, like an old classic Jaguar XK150 or some such animal. So my question is: is there any practical reason to keep and use a 35mm camera?

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Olympus OM-1N – A blast from the past! – Freelance Wastrel
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If that's a dinosaur, what would ya call this? :2razz:

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Chomsky said:
No idea. But there were a lot of ads everywhere, and a lot of people had 'em. It was around the time there were a lot of TR7 ads, and a lot of people had 'em too. At least in my neck of the woods ...
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Ahlevah said:
Besides having CDs and vinyl records, I also have a few older film cameras. My favorite is an Olympus OM-1n 35mm, semi-automatic SLR. I have a soft spot in my heart for this camera, because I traveled all over the world with it: Europe, Asia, Latin America, Canada. It's in pristine condition, and I still have all of the original boxes and packaging (the cellophane wrappings and foam inserts) for the body and lenses. It's sat undisturbed, except for a short stint in a child's photography class, in a bedroom closet literally for decades. I'm trying to work up the courage to part with it, and yet somewhere in the back of my mind is this idea that I might enjoy taking it out for a spin again, like an old classic Jaguar XK150 or some such animal. So my question is: is there any practical reason to keep and use a 35mm camera?

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It will be a classic and worth money but getting film will be difficult and so will processing
 
Rexedgar said:
I have two of them!

I bought one in the early 1980’s, I think Cheryl Tiegs was shilling them. I started skydiving and had a helmet rig built and added an auto winder and cable remote cord. When my dad passed in the early 1990’s I inherited his European model. Digital is so much more “instant gratification.”

You want to start a collection?....:mrgreen:
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Actually, I was looking on Ebay a couple nights ago for OM lenses, more out of curiosity I suppose. Some of the longer focal length lenses and accessories are still pretty expensive. So obviously there's still a market for this stuff, I assume because people are using adapters to affix them to modern digital cameras.
 
I have a couple I never use.
 
Ahlevah said:
Besides having CDs and vinyl records, I also have a few older film cameras. My favorite is an Olympus OM-1n 35mm, semi-automatic SLR. I have a soft spot in my heart for this camera, because I traveled all over the world with it: Europe, Asia, Latin America, Canada. It's in pristine condition, and I still have all of the original boxes and packaging (the cellophane wrappings and foam inserts) for the body and lenses. It's sat undisturbed, except for a short stint in a child's photography class, in a bedroom closet literally for decades. I'm trying to work up the courage to part with it, and yet somewhere in the back of my mind is this idea that I might enjoy taking it out for a spin again, like an old classic Jaguar XK150 or some such animal. So my question is: is there any practical reason to keep and use a 35mm camera?

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Olympus OM-1N – A blast from the past! – Freelance Wastrel
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Classic! :thumbs:
 
Chomsky said:
So, is this sort of a Canon AE1 competitor? Those babies were popular as hell!
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I suppose it was. Nikon F-series cameras were popular among professionals, and you knew you arrived if you owned a Leica or, especially, a Hasselblad.
 
Rexedgar said:
Who was shilling Canon?

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Cheryl Tiegs pitched the automatic OM-10, which was introduced in 1979 to bring the OM system to the consumer market. Her commercials for the product are forever enshrined on YouTube.



Rexedgar said:
Had to look: Andre Agassi/no contest!
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Actually, I didn't think Agassi was that old, and it turns out he wasn't. He didn't show up in Canon ads until the '90s. Tiegs' contemporary pitching the Canon AE-1 was another tennis pro, John Newcombe. It's still no contest, however.

 
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