At 10:31 AM 11/2/1998 -0700, you wrote:
>At 01:02 PM 11/2/98 +0100, you wrote:
>>Dear Sean and Wayne
>>
>>I read a review of the OM1 in Amateur Photographer a year or two ago in
>>which the author described this as a battery life indicator. Apparently,
>>if you set the shutter to B, with the meter switched off, the needle show
>>the state of the battery - horizontal is good with progressively lower
>>charge shown by lower needle angle.
>>
>>This was given as existing with the OM1, not the 1N, but my 1N seems to act
>>accordingly.
>
>I get the same behaviour with my OM-1n, which I think is a darn handy
feature.
>
>Garth
>
Garth and all,
Works with the battery mods too. I checked it with the OM-1 with MR9 and
the one with John's mod. I had one low battery in one. I swapped them
just to make sure. Yup.
Joel
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