Chip Stratton wrote:
>
> Sorry to waste the bandwidth. Everything seems to be fine. I feel like an
> idiot - all of my observations were based on a body with no film in the
> camera, and my known good OM4 has the exact same behavior.
>
> However, I do have a question for the OM wizards. Does all film available
> for 35mm have the same reflectance characteristics? It seems like a rather
> large leap of faith for the OM designers to base an exposure on that
> assumption.
(Very) old films may be fairy "off". Today, films *must* be OK because
very most cameras measure flash duration off_the_film.
I still have some rolls of b/w film (used for tests) that are much
lighter than the norm and produce approx. -1 1/2 stop underexposure with
flash.
Regards,
Emil
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