Olympus OM-1 : Specifications and Opinions

Olympus OM-1

The Olympus OM-1 is a reflex camera that uses film (non-digital) manufactured from 1973 to 1975 (discontinued). The range of sensitivities, including ISO extension, is - ISO. It does not have a continuos shooting mode.

29 users have given it an average vote of 9.6 out of 10

Esposure
Shutter speeds	1" - 1/1000
Exp. modes	M
Metering modes
Features
Stabilization	No
Continuos shooting	FPS
Pre-Burst	No
Live View	No
MLU/SS	Yes, Mirrok Lock Up
Video mode
WiFi	No
GPS	No
USB
USB Charging
Camera body and built
Viewfinder	Optical, coverage 97%, x
Flash	No
Shutter
Battery
Weather sealing	No
Weight	510 g
Dimensions	136 x 83 x 50 mm
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Erreotto

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.

AlfioLadisa

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

Roberto Miniero

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.

Basilio Leone

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!!!

Michele_mbp

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.

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