Jim, I bow to your superior Knowledge - I forgot about Zeiss. That is a good quailty lens manufacturer from what I have heard - I think almost but not quite as good as Olympus If I remember right. That's the trouble with teaching yourself. Infrared. I would have loved to try that but too late, I'm living in an apartment now. I don't remember what I paid for my OM1 but $150.00 sounds like it was in the right range for the body. 600-700 sounds like a good deal for what you're getting. The memory card deal sounds like a drawback, but the OM1 had proprietary "feature" cards. "You takes your choice and you pays your price" as my dad used to say. Thanks for the information, - TJ