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Re: [OM] Shutter Speed Accuracy and Camera Type

Subject: Re: [OM] Shutter Speed Accuracy and Camera Type
From: "John A. Prosper" <prosper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 12:39:32 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Jim Loudon wrote:

|
|> Any reason to assume that the "electronic" OMs (OM-2S, etc.) have either
|> more accurate or more stable shutters than the OM-1s?  I have heard this
|> but wonder if it is borne out in real life.
|
|Just one data point with one sample pair (and my son just wrapped
|up his first science fair project, where he heard _all_ about the
|need for more than one sample :-) )...
|
|At the Mid-Atlantic Oly Fest earlier this year (thanks again
|Tomoko!), I had the opportunity to have the shutters of my OM-1
|and OM-2 checked by another lister (thanks Rand!).  The shutters
|of both camearas were consistent (answers the stability point).
|The OM-2's shutter was absolutely spot on according to the tester;
|the OM-1 was typically about ten percent slow.  In either case,
|a very good result for a pair of cameras that haven't been
|serviced in a while.  In particular, my OM-2 is not what one
|would call a particlarly "clean" example, but it's still able
|to deliver the goods.
|
|Rand's comment to me was that this was pretty typical performance
|of the Olympus' he's seen (and he's seen many) -- the electronic
|shutters are extremely accurate; the mechanical shutters just a
|shade less accurate, but they're all very good indeed.
|
|As I said, just one data point...and no, we didn't put the
|cameras in the freezer to see how they would behave at low
|temperatures :-)

However, you DID provide the requisite microwave oven test
to check arid conditions performance, didn't you? :-)


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