Amazing,had OM1 from 1973 ,also the IS3000 . Both still work in 2024. Had flash setup and several lenses. Now use these lens with adaptor on Fujifilm XE1.
What a camera, I love mine and some of the best pics I have were taken with an OM1 or OM-10, a revolutionary Camera and the viewfinder....And it's just the sound they make, still makes me feel confident when I hear it that the pic is in the Camera. Sometimes underrated and under appreciated and part of the history of Photography. Wonderful Video, thanks.
Amazing how the manufacturers all competed at that time to bring innovation into the slr cameras. This gentleman is au fait with it all and gives an excellent demonstration. I remember buying my wife an OM1n which I subsequently used as I was taken with its lightness and simplicity of operation.Still have it thankfully.
I'm an Olympus shooter today and they are still 10-15 years ahead of the competition. I wasn't aware they were so far ahead in the SLR game. Impressive.
@@roksraka9241 They were 10+ years ahead with lens design. All the new mounts are copying Olympus 4/3rds. No camera comes close with computational photography. Canon just recently started including intervalometers for example. It’s far from absurd, but using that word is pretty telling.
I think the best Olympus 35mm analog SLR Camera are the Olympus OM-2 Spot/Program. The OM-1 is not fast enough at 1/500 and 1/1000, so often you will get slightly overexposed images on color slide film.
Back in the 80’s, just before I left school I got the OM20 and then later, when I started my first job, I got the OM2SP. Nice cameras but I had a problem with OM2SP, I think with the shutter curtain; I would shoot a roll of film but only 2-3 frames would come out in random locations along the film. In the end I swapped it for a Canon EOS 600 coz I wanted AF and a built in winder. Although plastic is was another good camera. If I were to buy a film camera today, it would be either the OM2n or maybe an OM4 both in black. The OM3 is very rare and sort after as Olympus made a limited number, so is the most expensive on the used market.
Great lenses, great compact size, but the radial shutter speed dial on the Olympus was too small for me, coming from a country where you get cold weather. Far better was the Nikkormat with a good tab to feel even wearing gloves.
Another great talk by Mr Woo. I used to be exclusively a Nikon shooter for 35mm in the seventies and eighties. Still own and cherish a Nikon F & F2, wonderful cameras, also to look at. Was somewhat put off when Nikon brought in an Italian design company to style their camera bodies. Do not care for the futuristic styling and red lines of the F3 onward. Anyway, I always admired the Olympus OM for its small size & elegance, but alas I was already invested in Nikon. Now in later years I picked up a second hand OM-1n and OM-2n and enjoy them a lot, esp. the huge, bright viewfinder. Build quality is not so sturdy as Nikon, but it will more than do.
@@sonicmistress Indeed, very true! However, both the early cameras of Nikon and Olympus after so many decades need to have the light seals and the polyurethane foam above the pentaprism replaced, as it turns to goo which can damage your camera. Probably Mr Woo’s company provides such CLA-services, as do classic camera repair workshops in other parts of the world.