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Re: [OM] Reciprocity failure and Olympus auto exposure

Subject: Re: [OM] Reciprocity failure and Olympus auto exposure
From: "Shawn Wright" <swright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 16:04:03 -0800
On  9 Sep 98 at 8:55, gma wrote:

> My point exactly. I know many of our friends (and mine!) are Nikon users.  
> And we love
> 'em. But in the field I've met a fair share using N90s, 8008s and even F4s 
> (no F5s yet)
> who are just clueless.Start with an FM10 for goodness sake people. One F4s 
> user walked
> out and set up within 3 feet of where I was working in a Yosemite meadow the 
> size of 2
> soccer fields. (Talk about thinking for yourself!) He then asks (no kidding) 
> can I tell
> him where the spots are where Ansel Adams took all those great pictures? 
> (Jeez, sure,
> hold my hand and walk this way....)  Then he checks out my equipment and is 
> mortified to
> see I'm using Olympus.  "They used to be pretty good. What happened?" He asks 
>  Then he
> learns my 4T has a spotmeter and wants to see if his reads the same as mine.  
> OK, time to
> find another spot.  See ya. I think Ansel took a good one right where you 
> are.  Stay
> here. Nice Nikon user Stay... stay...
> 
Sounds like the intro for a spin-off of  "As the Focus Ring Turns".... 

:-)

 
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Shawn Wright
Computer Systems Manager
Shawnigan Lake School
250-743-6240
swright@xxxxxxxxx

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