What is an Olympus OM2 worth?

What is an Olympus OM2 worth?

Olympus: Olympus OM-2

When did the Olympus OM2 come out?

1975
The Olympus OM-2 is an aperture-priority automatic-exposure camera (with full manual operation selected via switch), based on the earlier, successful Olympus OM-1 body. The OM-2 was introduced in 1975, and combined the light, sturdy camera body style of the manual-only OM-1 with a new automatic exposure system.

Is OM2 fully mechanical?

More importantly, OM2 takes the same range of lenses and accessories as the earlier OM-1with a few electronic flash units for dedicated TTL OTF automatic flash exposure control. These has made both camera complete a mechanical/electronic system configuration for the camera bodies.

Is the Olympus OM2 mechanical?

The first model introduced was the all-mechanical M-1, soon renamed OM-1, with a full aperture TTL CdS exposure meter and a wide bayonet lens-mount, gradually complemented by several quite sophisticated models. …

Is the Olympus om2 a good camera?

The Olympus OM system has a long history of both exceptional and under appreciated machines. To put it in simple terms; the OM-2 is the best vintage camera I’ve shot in the past few months, months that’ve included the Leica M3 and Canon A1 among many others. …

Is Olympus om2 good?

The Olympus OM-2n is a fantastic 35mm SLR: compact, light, precise, smooth. The Olympus Zuiko lenses are similarly fantastic optically, and are solidly built with great feel in the hand. If you could have only one manual-focus 35mm SLR, the Olympus OM-2n would be an outstanding choice.

Is the OM2 better than the OM-1?

The OM1 and OM2 were designed to compliment each other, and are essentially identical cameras apart from the aperture priority AE mode on the 2. If you are just learning, you should be metering manually, anyway. Both will yield excellent results, and Zuiko lenses are readily available and of renowned quality.

Does the Olympus OM-1 have aperture priority?

The camera is fully mechanical, and also sports a light meter. But even though the camera features a light meter, Olympus has excluded the auto-exposure modes (aperture priority and shutter priority). Interestingly, although the camera was launched as the M-1, Olympus had to rename it to OM-1 later.

What is the difference between Olympus OM 1 and OM 1N?

The only appreciable difference between the OM-1 and the OM-1N is the different flash shoe with its flash-ready indicator light. That only works with a T-20 or T-32 (and maybe a few other OM flashes). Too bad they didn’t take the opportunity to have the OM-1N work with 1.5 volt batteries.

Is the OM2 better than the OM1?

Does Olympus OM 1N need a battery?

Inserting Battery(ies) The OLYMPUS OM-1 is a mechanical SLR camera. It will still operate even there is no battery(ies) installed inside the camera. It is supplied with a 1.35V mercury battery (JIS H-D type) to power its through-the-lens exposure metering system.