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Rossostarter

sent on 18 Giugno 2025

Pros: For the revolutionary era

Cons: Nothing

Opinion: Actually my first love had been an OM1n, tried by chance one day in January 1990 in Genoa by the good Giorgio of GR photo, and it was a.ore at first sight... a silent and very sweet shot, a wide and bright viewfinder, (other than those keyholes of today!) difficult to describe the feeling felt at that moment, and yes that I had already been photographing for 8 years both with 35mm (Pentax and Nikon) and 6x6 (Mamiya), to the point of selling the following year all the pentax and part of the Nikon to buy the OM 4 ti ... cameras that have known so much the theater shows where they allowed me to shoot handheld at 1/8" with 100mm (and make ingr 30x40) or around the streets of the Camargue or in the jungle of the Philippines ... then 14 years later .i robbed everything... 5 years ago I bought back Olympus digital, a pen f... I've been fed up with digital for 2 years now... and I bought an Olympus kit with an OM2N and 4 lenses...

Brandellodistoffa

sent on 13 Novembre 2024

Pros: Excellent device as I could see using it

Cons: No defects found

Opinion: Rather than expressing an opinion to which all those who have preceded me have contributed excellently, I would like to ask for information, I don't remember what type of batteries you use, could someone kindly provide me with the information? for the Olympus OM1 I remember the PX625, but for the OM2 I don't remember if the voltage is 3V or 1.5. Thank you

user109536

sent on 25 Giugno 2018

Pros: Size, weight, easy to use

Cons: Nothing

Opinion: After several years I got my hands on a few thousand slides taken from the mid-1970s to the advent of digital with Olympus OM 2. They are mostly dia taken in the mountains and in the family and I was surprised by the quality confirmed by some made to scan professionally. Time, Aperture, ISO, exposure compensation all there! I'm not nostalgic at all and today I shoot with pleasure in digital but how it would be nice to still have a car with these features and that's it!

Oscar7

sent on 08 Maggio 2017

Pros: Compact, light, and fascinating. Exposure Meter

Cons: Nobody but being a machine of nearly 40 years.

Opinion: It was my father's camera. Then passed to me. My first camera, the one where I learned to take pictures. Probably my judgment is affected by these affective memories, but I have always appreciated the robustness combined with the lightness of the car body. The sophisticated light control system I did not find it inferior to other high-end machines (for example Nikon F2). RnrnI have no experience of this great battery consumption, and I have three machine bodies that I used to rotate with different optics (50mm 1 : 1.4 - Tamron SP 90mm 1: 2.8 - Vivitar 28mm 1: 1.8)

Gianluca Maria Bighelli

sent on 03 Ottobre 2015

Pros: Compact, light, good design, sophisticated light metering.

Cons: Limited battery life electronic shutter that locks with dead batteries.

Opinion: It 'was my third camera, purchased used. The model is the OM2sp. The disappointment when I gave up completely sudden exhaustion of the batteries. It 'an integral part of a copious photographic system OM. Used in tandem with the OM1, do not forget the spare batteries when you are traveling. He works fully automatic with dedicated flash (type the T32). Exhibitions impeccable in all lighting conditions. Shot silently and with low vibration. A technological jewel era analogica.rn

user58495

sent on 18 Settembre 2015

Pros: Small, compact, elegant, robust and ergonomica.Ha a light meter can give accurate exposures to several minutes in total automatism priority diaframmi.Legge light and adjusts accordingly DURING exposure thanks to an advanced system that reads light reflected from a particular design reflective printed on the shutter, so if someone starts a bit of flash after you press the shutter button, the OM 2 detects this and acts accordingly.

Cons: Lacks the elevation mirror manual, this instead in OM1, does not have the display memory only concealer fixed diaphragms not visible on mirino.rnPer the rest is still a small technological jewel.

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!

user36125

sent on 30 Dicembre 2013

Pros: strength, weight, size, etc. ...

Cons: by the user as said above it all depends on batteries, without those nothing works, not even the light meter

Opinion: was my father's car and is now passed on to me and with this I started to get closer to the world of photography. Now I switched to a canon 60d canon because I could fit on the optical olympus and then the cost to develop a film is too high. but if it was not for this I would have stayed in analog. :-)

Roberto Kravos

sent on 17 Maggio 2013

Pros: Size, strength, perfect exposures in low-light conditions even with long exposures, convenient switch automatic / manual, silent and vibration-free, along with body / lens very balanced

Cons: Electronic Shutter dependent on batteries, viewfinder with 97% field of view

Opinion: The model OM2, appeared in 1974, while presenting a body similar to the OM1, was truly revolutionary: automatic exposure cameras were already in existence but now the exposure was assessed in "real time", ie while the picture was taken. Through two silicon cells, the camera measures the exposure while the film is impressive, taking into account only the actual light that reaches the film. Thanks to the speed of the reaction of cells to measure, was developed the first electronic flasher system which used the same cells for adjusting the duration of the flash, thus working in full automation, in direct or indirect light, with bellows, extension tubes, filters, with all the sensitivity of the film. rnPersonalmente I found great use in low light, shutter speeds than 1 sec. , Even of a few minutes, obtaining exposures impeccabili.rn The model OM2 Spot / Programm, represented the maximum evolution: included the possibility of measuring exposedsimetrica spot and, placing the ring on the lens iris control value closed, the use of a program that the couple chose shutter speed / aperture. It was a successful model, presenting problems for electrical circuits. Rn