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Subject: [OM] Re: OM1n/ 2n/ spot
From: Thomas Heide Clausen <omlist@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 16:31:52 +0100
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:18:11 -0600
Parzival Herzog <parzp@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> On February 26, 2004 21:52, AG Schnozz wrote:
> > Well, the OM-2S was my first Olympus. 18 years later it remains
> > my favorite and most used camera.  Somewhere around 80,000
> > exposures.
> 
> So, why is it your favourite, over say the OM4? Is there a reason, or is
> it just sentiment?

I am no AG Schnozz, but can I answer that?

I like the 2s/p simply because it's got the best light meetering sytem
ever, with an unsurpassed ergonomics. What I mean is, that the continous
spot meetering is just nice: meter on what you think is where you want your
18% gray, and set apeture/shutter. Then move the spot to important
highlights/shadows, and observe the bargraph -- of course, you know the
lattitude of your film. As a matter of fact, just add the right terminology
to the above, and you're doing a simplified zone system without even
thinking about it...

The Pentax MZ-S (incidentially, my second favorite camera body) has roughly
the same spot-metering mechanism, with a slightly better viewfinder (sorry,
guys, but that's how I feel)

With the OM4, it's a different matter. Just to make a spot metering, you
must move your index finger to a different button. Try THAT with a winder
or motor drive attached. Oops, there goes ergonomics. Also, I tend to
confuse the highlight/shadow buttons (which I never use) with the spot
button. Of course, YMMW and all that ;)

Don't get me wrong, the OM4 is a nice camera. You just asked why I prefered
the 2s/p....well, you really asked why Schnozz prefered it, but I can't
help myself and reply ;)

> 
> I find that I am remarkably attached to my OM4, over my OM4T, and OM2n,
> with some intuitive sense that it is more reliable, and besides I prefer
> the black. I have recently acquired an OM1 (she seduced me in the used
> equipment cabinet while waiting to pick up film), and an OM1n (at only
> twice the price of a separate shoe4, how could I refuse.) So since my
> original OM1 was tragically drowned some years ago, soon the OM4 will
> have to compete with two re-incarnations of my first OM love, one black,
> one chrome.
> 

Well, all nice cameras in their own right ;)

--thomas

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