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Re: [OM] shutter speed ring origin? And other characteristics

Subject: Re: [OM] shutter speed ring origin? And other characteristics
From: "Lex Jenkins" <lexjenkins@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 17:01:43 GMT
From: DAVDOU9211@xxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:39:55 EDT

So Lex, what your're saying that another of your attributes is an index
finger that is inordinately long and like a sausage?


Well, I don't like to brag...

OTOH, to operate an OM shutter speed ring with my *right* hand I'd need a pinkie like a lemur's tail.

One other OM-advantage compared with my Can-not-an-OM-on FTbn: the mirror lockup and self-timer can be used at the same time on the OM-1; not so with the FTbn, since the self-timer lever is pushed in reverse to activate the mirror lockup.

A slight OM-disadvantage: the iris can't be locked down along with the mirror lockup; the FTbn self-timer lever does both.

Not that I can see or feel much difference between the two in lockup mode. In regular shooting mode, the FTbn twangs like a Fender Telecaster while the OM-1 strums like a Gibson hollowbody.
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Lex Jenkins
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