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Re: [OM] in-between shutter speeds?

Subject: Re: [OM] in-between shutter speeds?
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:54:15 -0600
At 03:18 PM 7/25/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I have an OM-1n. I understand that I can choose f-stops in between
>the "click stopped" ones. That is, I can set the lens to something
>between, say, f/5.6 and f/8, if it appears that the perfect exposure
>is really around f/6.3. And when I take the photo, the lens diaphram
>will stop down to around f/6.3 for making the exposure.
>
>Can I do the same with shutter speeds?

Not on the OM-1n, no.  Such an ability requires an electronic shutter governed 
by a microprocessor.  The OM-1n's shutter is gloriously mechanical.

Garth


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