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[OM] Re: OM-3Ti & F280

Subject: [OM] Re: OM-3Ti & F280
From: "Simon Worby" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 19:25:33 -0000
I wrote:

>> Yes, but the trouble is that it doesn't make sense. It says 
>> the F280 will do something that I don't believe it can (i.e. 
>> flash the Super FP light). And how/why would it do that 
>> anyway, since it (the F280) has no way of measuring whether 
>> the exposure was correct? That would have to come from the 
>> OTF metering on the camera itself (per normal TTL), but then 
>> surely the flash unit would respond in exactly the same way 
>> as with the 4Ti? Yet according to the 3Ti manual it doesn't. 
>> Maybe the 3Ti OTF metering doesn't work at above 1/60 second?
>
> If Paul Schings was right in 1998
> (http://lists.tako.de/html/Olympus-OM/1998-09/msg01624.html) then I
> think I am right that the 3Ti manual is wrong, and that there is no
> confirmation of correct Super FP exposure with the 3Ti (i.e. neither the
> flash nor the camera can measure it so neither actually knows).

Right. I'm almost 100% sure I'm right now. A later 3Ti manual (off the WWW) 
shows the Super FP light just lighting up, not flashing. My manual is wrong.

Simon
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