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Subject: [OM] shutter speed accuracy
From: "Clemente Colayco" <litefoot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 21:38:11 +0800
Hi CH:

Sorry to bring up an old topic. How are you able to tell that the shutter
speed on your cameras as you ay below are not accurate? Is there I can do it
without expensive equipment?

Thanks and regards

Titoy

----- Original Message -----
From: C.H.Ling <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] OT - N*k*n FM3A


> Yes, I'm jealous, I need a new up to date mechanical camera from
> Olympus to support my OM lenses. I'm very unhappy with the bug of the
> OM2s and OM4, 4Ti, here I mean the slow speed auto exposure problem.
> My latest OM2sp start to show the problem of my 2sp sold 10 years ago,
> the speed below 1/15s start to increase exponentially. i.e. 1/8s
> actual 1/4s, 1/4s actual 0.7s, 1/2 actual 1.xs, a few second actual
> shutter never close. I seen this problem with another OM4, my current
> OM4Ti Black... Now I only got a good OM4 and a OM2n to work for night
> shoots (in auto mode). The biggest problem is the local OM service
> center don't know how to repair them, they even said my 4Ti has no
> problem on their tester.
>
> Seeing the features of the FM3a, I think it will be very expensive, at
> least more than the current FM2n, seems not a student model. I don't
> feel I need a wonderbrick film camera, I love to see a camera like our
> OM4Ti design with a digital back.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
>
>
> "


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