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Re: [OM] OM longest auto exposure time

Subject: Re: [OM] OM longest auto exposure time
From: Larry <halpert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 15:18:35 -0500
My OM-2n with 200 & 400asa film has regularly done 6-7 minute nicely
exposed photos, when I was doing more night stuff.

Larry

ClassicVW@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Could we really expect getting exposures this long? Besides
> reciprocity
> failure, wouldn't we also risk reaching the camera's metering limit in
> very
> dim light? It would all depend on that metering limit, no? Or is your
> stated
> 19 minute exposure within that metering limit?
>
> Thanks,
> George
>
> omtech@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>
>> The OM-2 maximum auto exposure is based on asa.  A low asa setting
>> of 12
>> will give you a maximum of approx. 19 minutes.  asa 25, 9.5 min.,
>> asa 50 , 5
>> min,  asa 100, 2.5 minutes and so on.
>> 2n with go approx. 3.5 minutes at any asa, though the instruction
>> book says
>> 2 minutes.   I don't know about the 2S capabilities.
>>
>
>
>


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