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Re: [OM] OM4Ti

Subject: Re: [OM] OM4Ti
From: "Terry and Tracey" <foxcroft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 21:24:32 +1100

>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.

When a dedicated flash is used, the shutter speed is locked to 1/60. The
flash may quench, but the shutter speed is still 1/60.

>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.


Only that you can set to 1/60, and set exposure compensation to get fill
flash.

Foxy



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