That's the curtain design, not the meter weighting.
The horizontal component of the centre weighting comes from the curtain, the
vertical component from the design of the meter array, with an overlap of
the fields of view of the two SBCs, if I remember my Pangerl correctly -
don't have it to hand.
When the curtain changed, the meter array did not, leaving the metering as a
vertical line preferred.
Neither Mr Pangerl nor I make any comment about exactly how strong the
resulting centre weighting is, but that's how it was supposed to work.
Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 2:27 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: OM Metering
> Only on early OM-2 bodies. And it's not really center weighted, more
> like horizontal band weighted. Later OM-2 bodies and all OM2n bodies
> have center weighted viewfinder readings for Manual, but Auto exposure
> is overall average exposure. About the only reason I sometimes used
> Manual on my 2n.
>
> Moose
>
> Julian Davies wrote:
>
>>Yup
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Fernando Gonzalez Gentile" <fgnzalez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>>>Centre weighting on an OM2 (Auto Mode) ?
>>>
>>>
>
>
>
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