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Re: [OM] Shutter Curtain Meter patterns

Subject: Re: [OM] Shutter Curtain Meter patterns
From: Richard Schätzl <Richard.Schaetzl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 14:52:02 +0200
Robert Ashdown wrote:

> I was fiddling with my old (sadly now defunct) OM10,
> and noticed how completely different its pattern is to the OM2. 
> Did this imply they saw a different main type of photograph being taken 
> with this camera, eg portraits of standing people as opposed to 
> landscape-type shots, or was the whole system of reading the light completely 
> different?? 

I guess, it´s because of the different location of the metering cells.
The OM-10 has one in the center the OM-2 two on the sides.

> Did Olympus
> do other experimentation with patterns? What does the OM4 have?

It looks close to the OM-2 pattern, but has one central cell.

Richard



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