At 18:11 8/8/02, Winsor Crosby wrote:
I have been on this list a long time and that is the first time I remember
seeing such a statement about the 35mm shift. I think the only thing you
have to do is to make sure that you meter, according to Olympus'
instructions, in the centered position no matter which OM model.
--
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
"Does not mate well with the OM-1[n]" means the user must be patient with
the metering and let it settle down with aperture changes. The Auto lenses
are held wide open and bias the meter with a lever that moves with the
aperture ring. The Shift lenses do not. There is the tab to bias the
meter to a baseline of f/2.8, but it doesn't move with the aperture ring;
it's fixed.
The lens must be manually stopped down and metering occurs from the actual
amount of light allowed past the lens aperture. Like all the other OM
bodies, the OM-1[n] meter responds immediately to the changing biasing when
turning the aperture rings on Auto lenses, but unlike all the other OM
bodies it doesn't with manually stopped down Shift lenses. The type of
meter in the OM-1[n] has a "persistence" or slight "memory" that must be
allowed to dissipate for a few seconds when metering through the manual
stop-down Shift lenses.
I wouldn't characterize this as "not mating well" with an OM-1[n] but it is
an effect the user of a Shift on one needs to be aware of.
-- John
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