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Re: [OM] How to get a 2-13 screen without waiting out the back-order

Subject: Re: [OM] How to get a 2-13 screen without waiting out the back-order
From: "Terry and Tracey" <foxcroft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 16:53:05 +1000
> > I was expecting the 3Ti metering
> > (use spot) to work fine with the 8mm versus the trouble one has with the
1n or
> > 2n on manual (can't see the darned meter).  Sort of new camera/old lens.
But...
> > while I could see and read the meter, it was way off.  The OM-SIF (thank
you
> > Hans) notes, under 8mm/Fisheye, that "The aperture diaphragm does not
couple to
> > the exposure meter."  To which I said "Hunh?" but indeed, when I looked
no
> > coupling. I would have thought that it would still work, just that the
metering
> > would have been based on 1:2,8 - it clearly doesn't though.
Auto-diaphragm,
> > but no f-stop tab... makes no sense to me, except that when originally
released
> > the only way to effectively meter was OM-2/2n auto mode.  Am I missing
something
> > or is it as simple as that?

Auto mode will not work with the 8mm. Manual is the only way. Set exposure
with a different lens then change to 8mm. But your thoughts on the fisheye
and spot metering may be correct. The centre should spot meter OK. But I
don't have one of these lenses.

Foxy


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