At 01:39 PM 8/28/1999 -0700, Winsor you wrote:
>Does anyone know why the Oly shutter speed control was designed to be a
>ring around the lens rather than a dial somewhere else? It has always
>seemed an awkward feature of an otherwise perfect camera. It almost kept
>me from buying one. Does it save some great amount of space inside the
>thorough stuffed innards of the OM camera to do it that way?
>
Hi Winsor,
You're supposed to take off your shoes when you saunter around the sacred
issue of the Oly shutter speed dial. ;-)
I think I'm probably the other guy on the list who may agree with you. It
doesn't bother me but I find it to be eccentric. It's one of the reasons
I'm happy as a clam with the OM2000.
However, either by luck or genius on the models OM-2 and newer it frees up
the ASA dial for exposure compensation. I think this is just incredibly
convenient and wonder just about every day whether that was in the plan
from the minute Maitani designed the OM-1.
Joel Wilcox
Iowa City, Iowa USA
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