No Mo Olympus!

The gear list for the CB includes Olympus cameras, lenses and tape recorders. We might have an endoscope too, if that wasn’t cost prohibitive. Actually though, come to think of it, a home endoscope might be cost effective considering the advanced years of the CB denizens. Like old Red; Red probably could use a good scoping every month or two. Plus, Crumby and Ray might actually get their hiney holes looked up if they could do each other in the comfort of the CB. That would be interesting. Which would go first? Who would be the looker versus lookee?

But that’s crazy. We are certainly not fixing to purchase an Olympus endoscope. That’s right. The lack of progress on the camera front, leaving us stuck with a bunch of lenses that will be useless once the dslr finally breaks down, has put us off Olympus products generally and prompted a happy switch to Canon for our camera requirements. So no home Olympus endoscope.

Well. Sadly, we now may know why Olympus made little progress on camera sensors and related what not. The bosses at Olympus were stealing most of the money. So scanty of the green was left over, post thievery, for research and development. That’s why Olympus cameras, since Heck was a pup, feature the same sensor, no matter the camera model.

Nevertheless, here we espy an Olympus product that is still occasionally in use at the CB. What we use it for is snore verification. Like one of us may be accused of snoring, yet vehemently deny it, snoring. After all, even a Druid may not be aware of his or her own snores. But with this particular tape recording device, one can get the suspected snorer on tape. Goodness!

So let’s say Rayetta’s snores are keeping Crumby up all night. Yet Rayetta always denies that she even snores, ever. But when Crumby makes a tape of Rayetta’s snores, there is no more denying the truth. Uh. Be advised that many, such as Rayetta, may not like having their snores taped.

Oh! The picture was taken with the Canon 60D and 50mm 1.8. The available Oly equipment could not produce an equivalent picture without flash or a tripod. For heaven’s sake! Sadly, the E 330 is pretty much no count even for documentation photography.