On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, William Clark wrote:
> You know, I really love the mirror lock-up on my OM-1(n), especially for
> astrophotography and macro work. My question is, why is this feature
> non-existent now? Is it really difficult to engineer a mirror lock-up
> device? Even the new Nikon FM3A doesn't have one? Any insight into why the
> mirror lock-up seems to have disappeared?
I'm a little frustrated by this myself. Given an electronic shutter
release, it ought to be fairly trivial. And Pentax managed to do it
properly with their (now rather elderly) 6x7 SLR.
I guess it's a feature not much in demand and therefore not implemented.
It would be used a lot more (and missed a lot more on cameras without
it) if it were there. That and a quicker shutter are the only
improvements you could possibly make to an OM-4.
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