True enough, but as you can never be more than half a stop away from the
'ideal' exposure (which of course is a very arbitrary thing anyway), I
don't think it'll ever matter. I can't imagine there's any film out
there that can't tolerate half a stop of over/underexposure.
But, if you're striving for perfection, you can set the aperture between
stops. It'll close down to whatever it's set to, whether that coincides
with a marked stop or not. Shutter speed doesn't work the same way,
though, and you can only get the marked values.
Roger
"Daniel J. Mitchell" wrote:
>
> (I compared the OM1 against my known-to-be-working OM2, and the OM1 thinks I
> should have the shutter about four times as fast as the OM2, so I guess I'll
> need to do the battery thing).
>
> Question: as the OM1 only has a fixed number of settings for aperture (at
> least, most lenses are like this), and a fixed number of settings for
> shutter speed, doesn't this mean I can almost never get the right exposure?
>
> Say I'm at f8, and the 'perfect' amount of time to leave the shutter open
> for is 1/400th of a second. There's no way to get that -- I can get 1/500th
> or 1/250th, but not 1/400th, because the speed dial doesn't have that
> option. If it happens that the right speed is on the dial, that's great, but
> it seems like the majority of the time it'll be between two settings.
>
> Presumably this is something I don't worry about, and just try and get as
> close as I can?
>
> -- dan
>
>
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