Comments on: In Memoriam: My Olympus OM-1 http://www.tedconover.com/2010/06/in-memoriam-my-olympus-om-1/ Web site for Ted Conover, Author Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:51:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Zoomtokyo http://www.tedconover.com/2010/06/in-memoriam-my-olympus-om-1/comment-page-1/#comment-297 Zoomtokyo Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:16:53 +0000 http://www.tedconover.com/?p=2153#comment-297 Maybe yOu can put in a plexiglass box and mount as a display in your home. I saw that done on TV program, which gave tips on interior design. The object was a pair of favorite sneakers owned by an athlete. I'm considering doing the same with my 1980s vintage Canon AE-1, my work companion in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, England, Vietnam, France and several other countries for over a decade. I will never, however, throw it away. Maybe yOu can put in a plexiglass box and mount as a display in your home. I saw that done on TV program, which gave tips on interior design. The object was a pair of favorite sneakers owned by an athlete.

I’m considering doing the same with my 1980s vintage Canon AE-1, my work companion in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, England, Vietnam, France and several other countries for over a decade.

I will never, however, throw it away.

]]> By: TK http://www.tedconover.com/2010/06/in-memoriam-my-olympus-om-1/comment-page-1/#comment-259 TK Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:38:19 +0000 http://www.tedconover.com/?p=2153#comment-259 My husband and I have an Olympus we received as a wedding gift from a favorite friend of my parents, Carl Ellwanger who documented holidays for my parents throughout their raising six children. This was especially appreciated as my father could not readily photograph us as a consequence of contracting polio in the 1940's at the tender age of 15. I used the camera heavily to photograph my husband in the years before children and beyond all reason in the baby years of my children's lives. Sooo this past week in preparation for moving from Corpus Christi Tx to Boerne Tx we paid to have an 8x8x20' dumpster left in our driveway. My palms are sweating just thinking of all I threw out. In the process yes I picked up the old Olympus which was declared unrepairable due to sand throughout. Yep I am a beach bum at heart. I squeezed it inside the beat up old carrying case. Something inside me kind of felt squeezed. I shook my head and hung it back up on the full size free standing coat and hat rack and moved on. The dumpster left my driveway yesterday more than half full but the Olympus stayed. My husband and I have an Olympus we received as a wedding gift from a favorite friend of my parents, Carl Ellwanger who documented holidays for my parents throughout their raising six children. This was especially appreciated as my father could not readily photograph us as a consequence of contracting polio in the 1940’s at the tender age of 15. I used the camera heavily to photograph my husband in the years before children and beyond all reason in the baby years of my children’s lives. Sooo this past week in preparation for moving from Corpus Christi Tx to Boerne Tx we paid to have an 8×8x20′ dumpster left in our driveway. My palms are sweating just thinking of all I threw out. In the process yes I picked up the old Olympus which was declared unrepairable due to sand throughout. Yep I am a beach bum at heart. I squeezed it inside the beat up old carrying case. Something inside me kind of felt squeezed. I shook my head and hung it back up on the full size free standing coat and hat rack and moved on. The dumpster left my driveway yesterday more than half full but the Olympus stayed.

]]>