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  | sent on 29 Ottobre 2021 Pros: Small, light, aesthetically beautiful without giving in the eye, functional and practical, it had everything it needed. Cons: Nobody Opinion: I was 14 years old when my father stood at home with an OM1 that had been given to him by a shopkeeper of used photographic equipment; that OM1 was of a photojournalist, dirty, battered, and with a scratch on the 50 mm and some dents at the edges of the lens. But it worked, perfectly, always! In any environmental condition, with that fantastic light meter needle and that unique ''sound'' you heard when you uploaded the photo... and the noise of the shot... in short, it was all-encompassing love! Over time, at the same retailer, I bought other legendary zuiko lenses for a few lire and fell ill with photography. She is still here, every now and then I look at her, I try her, I shoot her. The emotion is always the same. In the following years I switched to nikon fmn2.. and then with digital to Canon. Today when I look at the R6 it always seems to me that something is missing, yet it has everything and more. It lacks the charm of that simplicity, that aesthetics and those stratospheric Zuiko optics. One thing is certain: I sell and buy digital bodies but she with her optics will always stay with me. |
 | sent on 29 Ottobre 2021 Pros: Easy handling, timing ring on the bayonet, ease of use, indestructible Cons: It is not easy to find the batteries suitable to operate the light meter, impossibility of exposing to 3200 ASA (I think due to the fact that in the 70s there were no such sensitive films) Opinion: I only used the OM-1 to photograph for three weeks, pairing it with a mediocre Kodak color film. The galvanometer light meter is very practical to use and accurate enough to trust it 100% if you are not able to guess the exposure. The timing ring located on the bayonet is immediately close to the aperture and focus rings located on the lens, and allows you to set all the shooting parameters at a glance. However, being a machine now fifty years old, it presents two problems: the impossibility of exposing to 3200 ASA, ergo if someone wants to have fun exposing films with high sensitivity (increasing the development time), should calculate the exposure to 1600 and then underexpose a stop by varying times or apertures. The second problem concerns the battery of the light meter, which today is produced only by Weincell specifically for this camera, making it a bit difficult to find |
  | sent on 31 Maggio 2021 Pros: Baby, it always worked, great optics Cons: Everything that is essential today of digital and that was not there then Opinion: Small and sturdy, you could stick it anywhere. I don't have the myth of analogs because the extreme convenience of developing your own files at home is priceless. However, I have many beautiful memories and a bad, definitive one: they entered my house and stole it with the OM4 and three Zuiko optics. I had just bought the OM4 mythical machine with an exposure meter that allowed to store up to 8 spot sizes. I wouldn't go back but I'd like to have it on my hands to play with it a little bit. |
 | sent on 31 Maggio 2021 Pros: Mythical Olympus! The OM1 was like a school ship! Cons: nothing Opinion: It was owned in 1986 with 135 2.8, 50 1.4 and 28 2.8!!! Sold stupidly after 2 years of use to switch to Nikon fm2... it was a very practical system with the galvanometer needle as a reference of the exposure, the ring of the defeats was in front of the very comfortable targetss to use... it was an essential Leica-type system made of times and diaphragms... robust, mechanical, reliable throughout... exceptional lens quality... the most beautiful memories and photos bind me to this camera... Oly's always made machines that live up to... even now with digital it is second to none... but this om film series has really made its mark in the photographic world!!! |
 | sent on 23 Febbraio 2020 Pros: robust, compact, lightweight, manerent, essential, it has what it takes to photograph. Cons: Nothing Opinion: I love her crazy and I could never deprive her of it. With her you can not cheat, impossible to lie, ergo: if you are good you will make beautiful photos, if you are a pippa will be the photos to talk. It reminds me of my first car, the legendary Fiat 500 L that if you knew how to drive gave you a thousand satisfactions vice versa the best way to learn to drive well was with only with her. I have 4 Zuiko goals: 135 f/3.5 - 50 f/1.8 - 28 f/3.5 - 24 f/2.8 the last of which really opens the heart! OM-1 is like Linus' blanket. |
 | sent on 11 Agosto 2019 Pros: Size compared to the reflexes of the time, simplicity and robustness. Cons: Nobody Opinion: I have a 1978 om1 that I have been using for 25 years together with three Zuiko optics: 28mm 2.8, 50mm 1.4 and 100mm 2.8. I love this machine and even today, in 2019, I shoot at least 4 rolls of 36 poses a year, almost always in black and white but also something in color. I went digital in 2003 but I can't pull the plug, unfortunately I don't develop and I'm going to sell the equipment and use trusted labs. Every time they come home the prints are always an emotion. |
 | sent on 19 Febbraio 2019 Pros: Dimensions, simplicity of use, completely mechanical operation (the battery feeds only the light meter), today's economical and high-quality optics, wonderful design. Cons: The camera should be measured with the meter of its time, impossible to compare with the current, I do not find any particular design flaws. Opinion: I still remember the publicity that announced it: "She was born" she acted. A very pure design and so contained dimensions that the Nikon F2 in comparison looked like tanks. A highly respected optical park and very high reliability in spite of the size. Photography in its purest expression, mechanical times and diaphragms, no automatisms, a light meter with a needle, that's all. Designed by the genius of the engineer Maitani (OM stands for Olympus-Maitani) is a milestone of analogue photography in which he has indicated a new way, introducing a vast system, made of optics, motors, backs, flashes and accessories that today They find at prices of course very affordable. Folco Quilici and Oliviero Toscani were the spokesmen of the time, meaning that Olympus was winking at professionals. Of course, it has passed by water under the bridges, its operating speed today makes almost smile, contrary to its timeless charm, which instead, a little moves. |
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| sent on 23 Marzo 2018 Pros: Compact, simple, battery-free, cheap and good quality optics, bright viewfinder. Charming Cons: In progress. It would seem no one for an analog. Opinion: I found by chance the OM1n model in the site of a well-known store of used material at a time when I wanted to get rid of the whimper of taking an analogue machine. Purchased together with a Zuiko OM 50 mm f / 1.8. The car was in very good condition, with no obvious signs of wear, only some slight scratches on the bottom probably due to the use of a tripod or grip. Some slight mark on the mirror in the point of contact with the sponge. The machine is incredibly small compared to other SLRs, but with a strong feeling of solidity. I received it a few hours ago and I could not prove it properly, but it seems to me that mechanisms work in a precise way. The ring nuts on the machine obviously have the basic functions: exposure time (positioned in correspondence with the lens coupling) and ISO setting. The luxury features are a lever to raise the mirror, a self-timer function operated by a lever with spring-loaded automatic and the exposure meter. The light meter requires the old batteries to mercurio from 1.35 V no longer on the market, in its place I will try to use an "oxygen" battery that I'm waiting for me to be delivered. The aperture of the diaphragm is controlled by a ring on the lens. The machine has a lever to activate a spot meter, the lancet is shown in the eyepiece. The lens is released using a button on the lens itself. The depth button is also located on the lens. Focusing is performed using a stigmometer. The machine has no frills and you can not cheat on pp, the machine does what you are told and if the composition sucks it is certainly not his fault. It will be a nice gym. In progress. |
 | sent on 14 Marzo 2016 Pros: Sturdy, simple, small, well-made even the smallest details, simple to use. Cons: Expensive at the time Opinion: I bought a OM1-MD in 1977 and used it until last year, with four Zuiko lenses, a 28mm, 50mm, 135mm, and a zoom 35/105 unforgettable objects in all respects, perfect. The so-called time "modern" have forced me to force things to change and go digital, I wanted to buy another Olympus, but digital, the high price stopped me buying and diverted to another brand. I upgraded to a Nikon D5300, I had for an opportunity I could not pass missed, however, robustness and ease of use of small and dated Olympus is unmatched by new productions of this Nikon range. Two years ago on a trip to Salento, a German tourist saw me with Olympus OM1 shoulder, with a smile between his lips and disbelief approached me surprised to see a OM1-MD still in use, he has wanted to see scrutinize very carefully and try it for yourself, for the occasion, I snapped a few pictures. They are small events that do not forget. the stepsone for Olympus in the meantime I had sent my son that you purchased a Pen 4/3 and I convinced him with an adapter ring to use well my old optical Zuiko bright and so he did. If someone wants to buy a vintage SLR, a mechanical analog SLRs, the Olympus OM1 remains the only one. |
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 | sent on 24 Novembre 2015 Pros: Small, perfect to always carry around, optical bright and excellent workmanship, to split image focus (say it is trivial? Trying to find a digital camera that we have the ...) Cons: No one ... except that people may Gurd strange Opinion: Before this machine did not understand what was so fascinating in the picture, I had tried a Canon 600D digital, I shot photos automatically trivial without a reason; then came her and say, I took heart. Its simplicity and speed of the adjustments are really incredible, when I picked up I had no photographic experience, but from the first film, I had great satisfaction, since I took her with me wherever I went, the mere fact of having to ponder the shot made me more attentive and after a while I had even the chance to use it for work taking pictures for concerts and events; people were incredulous when they saw me take a car to roll and remained affected by the fact that such beautiful pictures were made with an analogue machine. Personally I have used many beautiful digital SLR Nikon D7500, D800, but none has ever given me satisfaction, I can say that after the OM-1 can not even imagine being able to use an SLR digitale.rn |
 | sent on 03 Ottobre 2015 Pros: Compact size, light, mechanical, effective, wonderful design, works everywhere, vibrations contained in support: a complete system. Cons: Nobody. Opinion: It 'was my second camera after Zenit E. Sold for buying this gem. I am 42 years that I take her below, changed the battery once. I photographed anywhere in any weather. He never abandoned once. And 'the fruit of a fantastic project, combines simplicity with effectiveness and efficienza.rnLe Zuiko optics they offered me a lot of satisfaction, but one that I never appreciated the performance characteristics: Zoom 75-150 f4.rnSei years after I gave in what is now my wife's little sister OM10 and so we could take advantage of the park and optical accessories. When she left the OM 2sp remained a pipe dream for our financial shortfalls by students. It could buy used only twelve fa.rnLa OM1 recommend it to anyone who wants a basic but efficient analog in any situazione.rnUn board add a photo of the machine. |
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| sent on 18 Settembre 2015 Pros: Beauty, compactness, robustness, viewfinder extraordinary, completely mechanical, get up mirror manual, shutter speed dial to the outlet port coaxial optics are used at bargain prices as well as the excellent Zuiko lenses Cons: nothing important except: rn1 - Shutter speed and aperture not visible on mirinorn2 - batteries unobtainable need a network adapter that costs around 70 Euros Opinion: Are a Nikonist DOC for 30 years but the only brand that I have always regarded with much respect and attention is Olympus.Di I recently had the opportunity to buy a OM1 and OM2 in perfect condition with objectives Zuiko 28 / 2.8 to 35 / 2-50 / 1.8 - 135 / 2.8 and you say, while you will be astonished by the strength and compactness, elegance and simplicity of forme.Nel precise moment when you put your eye to the viewfinder remains absolutely blown away: it These viewfinders bigger and brighter never seen until then oggi.E guys, good sense of design: everyone, absolutely all lenses have a simple button for the depth of field, making it unnecessary to install this type of control on the camera body. Nikon, Canon and all other instead of to charge to the tune of EUR entered this command almost always of foreign high-end, insert it in the objectives: it serves a small button and a spring !!!!! The'm trying to give both b / it soon will let you know and post the images migliori.Per now I can say, very comfortable, ergonomic, theggere, targets all compact and elegant look gioiellini.Lo shot is one of the sweetest, silent and amortized ever seen! I fell in love! |
 | sent on 09 Giugno 2015 Pros: Compared to the reflex of the period is lightweight and compact, fully mechanical, mechanical shutter curtains in silk, vibration to shoot very low, return mirror amortized air, practical shutter speed dial on the filler coupling optics, reliable and accurate metering is the only component electric, the tiny battery lasts years. Cons: None. Opinion: The first major advantage of this camera is the control system time / stops completely mechanical and its reliability in every occasion. can be used in extreme temperatures as low as -15 ° to + 55 ° where the mechanical system proves infallible with the click guaranteed even many kilometers away electricity, thinking about it is not a small advantage for extreme travelers. The last maintenance've done personally by disassembling, cleaning, lubricating and away everything ok. Personally I find it nice in the shots and meditated for the use of films in B & N, which has a camera optical system complete and of good quality. To date in the digital I own two, too pleasant to hold in hand, working with an instrument precise and reliable! |
 | sent on 17 Maggio 2013 Pros: Size, strength, mechanical shutter, convenient switch the exposure resulting in long battery life, quiet and vibration-free, along with body / lens very balanced Cons: Viewfinder with 97% field of view Opinion: When the OM1 was presented at Photokina 1972, the designers gained against the Olympus cameras of the time do not grams and millimeters but ounces and inches, offering a complete system, including lenses and accessories all consistent with the philosophy behind the project, ie all small. The camera possessed interchangeable focusing screens, electric motors drive, the park fisheye lenses ranged from 8 mm to 16 mm to 1000 mm telephoto, passing through the entire zoom range, with some truly incredible achievements for compactness and performance (such as 21 mm f3, 5 and 35 mm f 2.8 decentrable). rnHo bought in 1974 one of the first models (to mount the engine had to be done in support), I brought the camera everywhere, in deserts as on the snow 5000 m above sea level, making thousands of rolls and I always brought home pictures. Only in 2008 (!) I did a general overhaul, changing the electrical power supply system for the 1.5 V batteries. RnAncora today I bring with me, if, whatever happens, I want to be sure to bringback image rn |
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