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Re: [OM] OM-1 -- a different metering question

Subject: Re: [OM] OM-1 -- a different metering question
From: Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:09:17 -0500
There is a list of good books and other links at
http://www.spinics.net/photo/

Tom

On Tuesday, January 29, 2002 at 20:08, Chris Barker 
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "Re: [OM] OM-1 -- a different metering question" saying:

> Dan
> 
> You need to read "Pefect Exposure" by Roger Hicks and Frances 
> Schultz.  His research, reasoning and science will help you to work 
> out that it is probably of little consequence... ;-).
> 
> Chris
> 
> At 10:44 -0700 29/1/02, 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?
> >
> >
> 
> -- 
> <|_:-)_|>
> 
> C M I Barker
> Cambridgeshire, England.
> 
> +44 (0)7092 251126
> mailto:imagopus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ... a nascent photo library.
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