gma wrote:
> Rear curtain sync is when the flash fires just before the rear curtain
> begins to close, as opposed to just after the first curtain is fully
> open. The OMs do not do rear curtain sync.
By your definition the 2's and 4's do, because when the OTF cell decides
exposure is enough, it quenches the flash and closes the second curtain
at the same time. It's true that you can't get those cliched long Road
Runner style blur trails because you can't increase the shutter time
above 1/100 or whatever it is. But, equally, the problem of the trails
spatially *preceding* the moving object, which you get with conventional
cameras like the OM-1, is absent. The trail is caused by ambient light
ghosting. (Huber has graphs of vibration v. time in his book, so
I'm sure he's right when he says it works this way.)
The OM-3Ti is different, I imagine.
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