Hi gang,
I have been using the OM 2000 for a couple of months now, and am happy with
it overall. However, a week ago while shooting in low light conditions, I
noticed something peculiar in the 2000. Let me try to explain it (hope I am
coherent).
Let's say a scene requires an exposure of 1/2 sec at f8 on a 100 ASA film.
On my OM 10, I set the aperture to f8 and the film speed to 100 and the LED
lights up at 2 on the left hand side of the viewfinder (indicating that the
shutter should be 1/2 sec). Opening the aperture to f5.6 makes the LED light
up at 1/4 sec. Or, keeping the speed at 1/2 sec and aperture at f8, turning
the film speed dial to ASA 200 again makes the LED light up at 1/4 sec to
indicate the correct exposure. All fine so far, normal camera behavior.
On my OM 2000, for the same scene setting an exposure of 1/2 sec at f8 on a
100 ASA film causes the minus LED to light up indicating underexposure.
(Although the green LED indicating perfect exposure should light up).
Opening the aperture to f5.6 or f4 or f 2.8 has no effect. Turning the film
speed dial to 200, 400, 800 etc. also has no effect.
So, my query is this ? does the OM 2000 meter stop working at speeds below
1/4 second?
Puzzled,
Arnab.
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