On 25 Sep 98 at 12:13, Jay Maynard wrote:
>
> If you have a manual focus lens on it, you get no readout at all. The
> readout area in the viewfinder is completely blacked out.
>
> Yes, the readout is nice - but only if you have an AF lens in place. You
> get, from top to bottom, a red/green LED that indicates focus OK or not,
> readout of shutter speed from 2" (two seconds) to 1000 in 1/2 stop steps or
> Lo if the shutter speed is longer than 2 seconds, an aperture readout in 1/2
> stop steps, and annunciators for flash ready/OK, SP flash (whatever that is
> - F280 only), and ...drat, can't remember the third. It's well lit and easy
> to read.
How is the AF indoors? The review I saw gave a rating of 4 EV, where most
others in '87 were working at 2-3 EV. Do you use it much, and if so, how does
it perform?
> Three comments I forgot to add last time: 1) The camera is nice and quiet -
> even more so than an OM-2 with winder. Of course, you can turn an OM winder
> *off*... 2) It *feels* bigger than a manual focus body. Part of this is the
> bulk of the flash grip (they also have a non-flash grip that appears
> smaller, but I haven't seen one), but part is the camera itself. I can't
> quite put my finger on it. 3) You *must* use DX-coded film. If not, the
> camera assumes ASA 100 and can't be overridden.
>
Is there an exposure compensation? I doubt I'll ever find an OM-77, but if I
do, and it's cheap, it still might have some use...
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Shawn Wright
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Shawnigan Lake School
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