Mark,
I agree - spoilt we are!
But even the OM4Ti, automated as it is, suffers from this kind of
problems in connection with the F-280 when the ambient light
conditions are crossing the 1/60 border.
With the camera set to AUTO mode using Super FP Flash, some clouds
which make the exposure 'slower' than 1/60 will cause the shutter not
to release at all.
You will have to either put the camera into manual mode (to keep using
Super FP) or switch the flash to 'normal TTL' (and keep the camera on
AUTO).
Of course when you have just changed the flash setting to normal TTL
and try again the clouds will disappear... you already guess what
happens now: the flash will no longer fire.
"Automation" it is called, but all by 1980's standards I'm afraid.
Frank.
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:53:35 -0500 (EST), Mark Dapoz <md@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Frank van Lindert wrote:
>
>> To be honest, this has been exactly the reason why I am selling my
>> OM-3's and why I will keep only my Ti-model, alongside with the
>> OM-4T...
>
>I know exactly what you mean, it's so easy to get spoiled by the Ti's :-)
>The only improvemant I would like to have seen is if the 3Ti could give a
>warning when the shutter speed is above 1/60 and a T-series flash is connected.
>I'm really getting tired of taking shots which have been cropped by the
>curtain! Of course that's not the 3Ti's fault, it's the OM-4Ti's fault,
>it has corrupted me with all its automation :-)
> -mark
>
>
>
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