After the camera releases the second curtain it can't do anymore. No reason
to meter the light.
The real advantage of OTF metering is that the meter is active during the
exposure, not that the film is used as a reflector (IMHO).
-jeff
>From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [OM] Re: OM Metering, was Digital Dilemma
>
>
>Since
>there is no pattern on the second curtain, metering would be horribly
>in error if it continued to monitor exposure by the time the second
>curtain gets much beyond a small amount of the way into the frame. So
>metering is complete as you say by the release of the second curtain.
>
>Winsor
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