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Re: [OM] Modified 2 series screens

Subject: Re: [OM] Modified 2 series screens
From: Dirk Wright <wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 12:52:23 +0000
>OK...
>
>If you modify a '2' series screen, like the 2-13, to fit an earlier OM like 
>the 1(n) or 2(n), does the brighter viewfinder image affect the light meter? 

yes.

>  An OM-4 reads light from behing the mirror, right? But earlier OM's use a 
>pair of CDS cells on either side of the eyepiece for center weighted 
>metering.
>Without going to a '2' series screen, the brightest I can get is the
>1-12 which I use for macro.  The brighter 2's would be better, wouldn't 
>they? Is it worth going to all the trouble of getting one & modifying it?
>

It's great if you can remember to mentally compensate and/or get your meter 
recalibrated. The screen does not effect auto exposure in the OM-2 or -2n 
cameras. 

-- 
Be Seeing You.
Dirk Wright
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in
praise of intelligence.
                -- Bertrand Russell


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