Yep, it's 1950's, stop-down metering all over again. You turn the aperture
ring, the lens opening phyically changes, just like a rangefinder lens. Oh,
the finder also gets darker.
The only real issue is that there isn't a nice mechanism like a Zuiko shift
lens, where you can compose at full aperture, then hit a button to stop down
the lens, allowing the camera to meter the scene properly. This limitation
makes using the adapters a slow operation for any sort of action and pretty
much unusable except for static subjects, IME.
Skip
----- Original Message ---------------
Subject: [OM] Re: E1 + manual Zuiko
From: Daniel Mitchell <danmitchell@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:54:14 -0700
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>> The adapter mechanically closes the aperture of the OM Zuiko as soon as it
>> is set to something other than wide open.
>
> In other words, it's as if you're using it with the DOF preview button
>always pushed in?
>
> -- dan
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