[KOML] Omega Rapid wanted

[Paul Durham <pdd@gcnet.net>]

My foray into medium format photography was when I worked on our high
school yearbook staff ('72 to '73) using the old twin lens Yashica D's.
A professional photographer from the yearbook publisher would be sent
out to important school events with a Koni-Omega, which we had a
tendency to drool over. Sadly, I forget his name, but he would
occasionally lend the camera to us if he couldn't make a basketball game
or other event. Feeling important, and also good about the trust he put
in us, we would snap pictures like crazy and then later develop them in
the school darkroom.

During my university days, I invested heavily in 35mm equipment, focused
on slides rather than prints, and drifted away from medium format. Boy,
how I missed all of that free film, paper, and chemicals from high
school!

I am now working on some interpretive center exhibitry for work and have
rediscovered how important the quality of medium to large format work is
in the graphics industry. Consequently, and for sentimental reasons, I
am intending to purchase a Koni/Rapid Omega and focus on outdoor
photography and scenics. I guess I also have to try and remember how to
load the film!  :-)

I have started to research the used camera houses via the internet, and
have found a good number of cameras in a consistent price range. I'd
still like to see what's on the private market, so if anyone on the list
has a camera and lens for sale, very good condition, please e-mail
directly off-list and we can talk.

Please, no worn out or banged up units, light leaks, etc... Rapid-Omega
preferred, and being old fashioned I'd like to go with the 100 model,
hopefully recently serviced.

Thanks!

Paul Durham
Oakland, Maryland
pdd@gcnet.net