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RE: [OM] exposure-compensation failure

Subject: RE: [OM] exposure-compensation failure
From: "Daniel J. Mitchell" <DanielMitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:35:04 -0600
> It is the turning of the bottom part of the dial that makes the 
> compensation or the film speed adjustment. When you lift the spring 
> loaded top it just disconnects from the bottom.  When you rotate and 
> re-engage, then turn the dial with the indicator line back to zero is 
> when the film speed changes. Lifting the top and turning it does 
> nothing at to the settings of the camera except the compensation 
> indicator line is displaced.

 Oh, right, of course. Sorry, I wasn't visualising this properly; I forgot
about the reset-exposure-comp-to-zero step after changing the film speed,
because I always just do that automatically, so I'd forgotten that it needs
to happen.

 -- dan

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