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Re: [OM] Aperture Communications (Was something else)

Subject: Re: [OM] Aperture Communications (Was something else)
From: CarlMarin <CarlMarin@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 20:54:29 EST
In a message dated 98-01-14 19:07:15 EST, you write:

> 
>  Even if you have a lens with no auto-diaphragm which stops down as 
>  you adjust aperture, the lens simply needs a fixed aperture-reporting
>  lever and the TTL metering still works.   
>  
>  The OM aperture arrangement is very very clever; it's only drawback is
>  (near) impossibilty of in-viewfinder aperture reporting.
>  
>  The lack of in-viewfinder display rarely bothers me, since I just
>  remember where I am.   A quick spin down to f/1.8 and
>  count-the-clicks-back suffices to tell me the aperture.  
>  
>  The only time it does bother me is doing macro work where I sometimes
>  can't get my head around the front of the camera (most recently
>  because of a nest of rose thorns) to see the exposure settings on my
>  OM-1 when I want to record them.
>  
>  Chris.
>  
Thanks for that lucid explanation Chris,  I guess I was suffering from a bad
case of wrong-thinking in regards to the wide open metering bit.  

Carl 

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