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Re: [OM] Re: olympus-digest V2 #1413

Subject: Re: [OM] Re: olympus-digest V2 #1413
From: "Dirk Wright" <wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 08:13:29 EST
>=========================>> One advantage of a TTL spotmeter though is 
you can meter through filters
>> more easily.  
>
>The pentax spotmeter has a 46mm thread for filters, correcto? 
>===================================>
>yes.  but my OM lenses don't, so I have to meter through a different
>filter.  

use a 46-49 step up ring.

>moreover, spotmetering through a filter is rife with potential
>for errors anyway, which is why i don't try to spotmeter through 
filters.

uh, how's this different than metering with filters on your camera? 

>so polarizers are more difficult to use this way, and bellows factor
>is not taken into account in macro situations.

yeah, I agree with that.

Be seeing you.


Dirk Wright

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