At 19 minutes it's not necessarily accurate, but atleast it's staying open.
Reciprocity failure in film will come into play with any long exposure
whether or not the camera is accurate in low light.
John Hermanson
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From: <ClassicVW@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] OM longest auto exposure time
| Could we really expect getting exposures this long? Besides reciprocity
| failure, wouldn't we also risk reaching the camera's metering limit in
very
| dim light? It would all depend on that metering limit, no? Or is your
stated
| 19 minute exposure within that metering limit?
|
| Thanks,
| George
|
| omtech@xxxxxxxxx writes:
|
| > The OM-2 maximum auto exposure is based on asa. A low asa setting of 12
| > will give you a maximum of approx. 19 minutes. asa 25, 9.5 min., asa 50
, 5
| > min, asa 100, 2.5 minutes and so on.
| > 2n with go approx. 3.5 minutes at any asa, though the instruction book
says
| > 2 minutes. I don't know about the 2S capabilities.
| >
| >
|
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