Hello,
I have been a passive member of this list for while, and from now I hope that I
can contribute with my knoledge from now and onwards.
For my comments please see inline text.
Jay Maynard wrote:
> I just found this list. Whee!
>
> I've been a fan of Olympus SLRs since I first handled an OM-1 as a teenager.
> I bought one of the first black OM-1s in the US, and then replaced it with
> an early OM-2 when that one was destroyed in a fire. That OM-2 has been a
> workhorse for the past 23 years.
>
> I recently started haunting the Olympus auctions at www.ebay.com, and have
> now acquired several more cameras: two OM-Gs, an OM-10, and an OM-PC, all
> advertised as being dead and all running now (gee, you'd think people would
> try new batteries in a camera before giving it up for dead!), and a couple
> more OM-10s, an OM-G, and an OM-77 still broken. Lenses, too, and a few
> winders, and other miscellanea...
>
> I used to say that I could figure out any camera by playing with it for 10
> minutes. My dad's Nikon N8008 quashed that...and now, the OM-PC has me
> slightly stumped, in two areas.
>
> 1) How, exactly, does the program mode work? I assume that it controls both
> the shutter and the diaphragm, the latter by controlling how far the
> stopdown lever is thrown during exposure. What's got me puzzled is: WHat do
> I do with the aperture ring on the lens? There's no "auto" setting on any of
> mine, unlike, say, the Canon AE lenses. If I adjust it with the camera on,
> the indicated shutter speed moves in big jumps, and stays in each place for
> three or so F-stop settings of the lens. What's going on here?
>
Actually the program function of the PC (and 2S) is quite elegant. The camera
stops down the aperture xx0f the available max F-number, and then uses the
OTF for compensate the shutter speed so the exposure is correct. This implis
that if you do not set the lens to min F-stop (max-number), you will get higher
shutter speeds. I think Olympus made this so you do not have make a new series
of lenses to match Program mode. One drawback of this is that the OM-PC (and
2s) is noticable slower from pressing the shutter release button to time when
the picture is actually taken.
I have had an OM-2S, but (partly) due to this delay I have traded it for an
OM4TI.
> 2) What the heck is ESP metering? How can I tell if it's on or off?
>
> I look forward to hearing from you folks...you all seem to be as rabid about
> the Olympus cameras as I am.
>
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