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[OM] Re: Olympus Pen EE questions

Subject: [OM] Re: Olympus Pen EE questions
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:49:17 -0000
Responding to my own post, you might also take a look at
http://www.subclub.org/shop/pene.htm Bill, as you may have a slightly
different version of the EE.  It seems a key determinantis whether the
leather is the standard pebbled type, or does it have a basket-weave effect!

Piers

-----Original Message-----
From: Piers Hemy [mailto:piers@xxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 17 November 2006 21:45
To: 'olympus@xxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [OM] Re: Olympus Pen EE questions

You can't set the aperture, the camera does so based on the film speed and
the reading from the built in (selenium, not CdS) light meter. Quoting the
eSIF (yes, it covers more than OM models):

"The PEN EE ("Electric Eye") Series featured a built-in meter and automatic
exposure (AE). The first model, the EE, used a simplified AE: there was only
one shutter speed (1/60) and the aperture was selected by the camera.
On the later models two shutter speeds were available: 1/200 for AE and 1/40
intended for flash exposure with manual selectable apertures (also allowing
manual exposure). The first models used a selenium meter round the lens,
later models used a CDS cell in the camera." 

Piers

-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jez Cunningham
Sent: 17 November 2006 21:23
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Olympus Pen EE questions


The "aperture ring" sets aperture or ASA I think.
If you set to an ASA setting it will go into auto mode, if you set an
aperture setting it's in manual (eg for flash use).
br
Jez

On 11/17/06, NSURIT@xxxxxxx <NSURIT@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Just a couple of questions:
>
> 1) Does anyone have a manual they would like to send to a new home or 
> perhaps scan/copy for a dues paying member of ZA?  I would naturally 
> be  willing to send a little folding green your way, reciprocate in 
> kind with  something from my references or perhaps swap something 
> Olympus for it.  No,  AG, not the DZ 7-14mm!
>
> 2) My camera, which has an EL (easy load, I think) badge on the front, 
> has only one moving setting on the lens.  It appears to either adjust 
> the film speed or the aperture and that has me a bit puzzled.  This 
> thing has a CDS  meter which needs no batteries.  There are click 
> stops for ASA, but none  for the apertures.  Assuming I set the 
> aperture to achieve the depth of  field I want, then how does the 
> camera know what my the correct ASA is for the  film.  "How do it 
> know?" questions about machinery have always intrigued  me.  Take the 
> Thermos for example . . . it keeps the hot things hot and the  cold 
> things cold.
> This camera is old, but not as old as me and I  don't see that either 
> of us is young enough to figure out such a sophisticated  calculation.
> This is especially true given that we are both from a pre-computer 
> era.
>
> That is all this inquiring mind has for the moment.   <pen{8^)head  Bill
> Barber
>


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