At 12:53 AM 1/9/98 +0100, Per Nordenberg
wrote:
>
>
>>On 6 Jan 98 at 12:21, Per Nordenberg wrote:
>>
>>> Tomoko, even if your assumption is right I would think most people
>>> associates the name with the year 2000. As a result the name will
>probably
>>> sound very much "obsolete" in a few years time (as well as everything
>else
>
>>Yeah, right. So next you're going to tell me Windows 95 is obsolete...
>Hmmm...
>
>>you may have a point there... ;-)
>>
>
>>> that is called "2000"). Therefore I think the name is not the very best
>>> choosen (why not OM-50?), and it´s surely not the first Olympus SLR
>capable
>>> of a shutter speed of1/2000, The whole IS line is capable of that.
>
>>As are most of the OMs, too (I think). I seem to recall that the OM-2 and
>even
>>my lowly OM-10 have a "hidden" top speed of 1/2000 in auto mode to provide
>an
>>extra stop of overexposure insurance.
>>
>
>It would be interesting if this could be verified by other list members.
>I´ve certainly not discovered any hidden top speed of 1/2000 on my OM-2SP!
>
As I was reading old Oly mails, I came across this, quoting from John H.'s
e-mail:
With no oil on the magnet, the shutter should fire between 1/1000 and
1/2000th of a second (the speeds above 1/1000 are not advertised) and
you should see a light bar (due to the TV scanning system) about 1/8
inch wide, running diagonally across the film plane.)
This is from discussion of oil on the magnet in Shawn's OM-10. That may be
why Shawn remembers this.
Tomoko Yamamoto
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