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Re: [OM] OM-30/F

Subject: Re: [OM] OM-30/F
From: WKato@xxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 04:35:25 EST
In a message dated 98-02-16 02:40:08 EST, you write:

> I may be way out here, but didn't this model require 5 (five!) 1.5 cells?
>  Sure seems like a fishy design on a manual camera. Somewhere deep down in
my
>  sleepy (it's early morning) head I also remember a review of this camera as
>  having "very nervous" focus assist indicators. And it didn't have TTL-
flash.
>  
It's odd but it doesn't seem to use batteries that often-about once per year
seems to be my experience.  There are different contacts when you put the five
batteries into the camera so that it seems the camera can use different
voltages without having a voltage regulator circuit (maybe this was fishy).
If you hand hold the OM-F, the out of focus arrows do twitch on and off a lot.
It is alleviated if you use a tripod or use a larger aperature lens.  It does
not have TTL flash but the ready light/correct exposure light appears in the
viewfinder.

I saw a 35-70 AF lens once at Studio City Camera (hello Gary Schloss).  Does
anyone know if this will allow the OM-F to be an autofocus camera?  There is
one electrical contact at the 12 o'clock position on the OM-F mount and there
is a conical rubber spring loaded switch (like the OM-4T) at the 5 o'clock
position on the mount (this may be some type of aperature sensitivity switch).

Warren Kato
wkato@xxxxxxx

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