Many rangefinder and earlier SLR designs have a shutter speed ring around
the lens throat. I must admit I don't find it very ergonomic. The ones in
which the aperture and shutter speed are interconnected (often in LV
settings) can be a right pain Voigtlander Bessamatic is one of the worst
offenders. Most classic Retinas do too but it's little easier with the
milled wheel to get the settings you require. Overall I do prefer the
settings all to be on the top plate.
Regards
Hilary Stone
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>From: rdk@xxxxxxxxx
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [OM] shutter speed ring origin?
>Date: Thu, Oct 19, 2000, 8:34 am
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> My Olympus Pen D (my first Olympus, bought in the mid 60's) had this feature.
> The meter on the top of the camera was not coupled, and gave a light value
(LV)
> that you transferred to a little window on one of the rings on the lens,
shutter
> or aperture, I can not remember which. With this set, one turned the aperture
> and shutter ring together, maintaining the chosen LV in the little window. A
> great camera, by the way....carried in my ski bumbag for years...
>
> Regards, Roger Key
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>>Some fixed lens rangefinders incorporated this feature. Minolta and Yashica
>>come to mind. Once the exposure was set, turning the rings together could
>>be done without looking. Unfortunately I haven't found a working sample of
>>those models in years.
>>Lex Jenkins
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>>I can't remember which camera this instruction was for, but I remember
>>reading that one advantage of the shutter speed in line with the aperture
>>was that if both rings were rotated together, the effect could be changed
>>without changing the metering.
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