Such a beauty! This is a review of the Olympus OM4 - a camera I bought on a car boot sale a few months ago for the grand total of £9 including a G-Zuiko 35-70 f/3.5-4.5. The OM4 hit the shops in 1983. It was meant to replace the classic OM2n by giving it a more modern touch. The OM3/OM4 had a few updates (T for the US market and Ti for the rest of the world) both of them updating features like battery consumption, high speed flash synchronization and adding a Titanium frame. Whilst the OM4 sold well in it's different versions, it's sibling, the OM3, was a commercial disaster. Few were sold due to the extortionate prices for what it was essentially an OM1 with a spot metering - these cameras command now high prices in the second hand market. The spot buttons The OM4 feels so familiar. If you ever held an OM2 then you know that this is unmistakably it's sibling. There are a few changes though. Next to the advance lever there are the spot button...
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