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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Two Oldies
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:57:26 -0800
On 1/12/2013 1:36 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> I received an Olympus XA over the Christmas holidays, and finally got a roll 
> of film back to see what it could do.  I was concerned about aging of the 
> cells whitch control the shutter speed display and the shutter.  From rating 
> Kodak 200 color at 200, 400, and 800, all images were usable, but 400 
> appeared best.

If you are judging on the basis of automated scans/prints, you really can't 
tell anything about the accuracy of the 
camera's exposure.

Films like you used and automated processing are both specifically designed to 
work together to give pleasing results 
over a wide range of exposures. Nothing wrong with that at all, for the 
intended purpose, but it means one can't tell 
whether an exposure system is accurate or not with them.

Cautionary Moose

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