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Re: [OM] Fill-in flash with T-series

Subject: Re: [OM] Fill-in flash with T-series
From: hou@xxxxxxxxxxx (Xinjun Hou)
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 09:30:57 -0800
Frank Wrote:
>Private communication with Wim made clear what the precise purpose of
>taping the flash contact is. It does NOT shorten the minimum sync time
>in any way - that always remains a (poor) 1/60th.
>But it does bring back the possibility of the old OM-2 to allow for
>exposure times LONGER than 1/60th, measuring the ambient and flash
>light together when in auto-mode. 
>
>According to Wim, the old OM-2 didn't take the flashlight into account
>well enough. The OM-4(T) might overdo a bit on this point, emphasizing
>the flash light a little too much in its calculations of the total
>light needed.

Isn't nice if Olympus provide the source codes of the controling
software in the OM-2,4,4T(i) cameras? Any one got it?

Xinjun
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