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Re: [OM] Zeroing out OM10

Subject: Re: [OM] Zeroing out OM10
From: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 20:39:46 +0100
On Fri, 11 May 2001 01:33:25 +0100 (BST), Arun wrote:

>Thanks guys,
>
>Bear with me as I don't know a huge amount about SLRs,
>but at the class pretty much every other camera could
>call up a meter with readings ranging from negative to
>positive - most by pressing the shutter release
>halfway down. When this meter reads zero, the camera
>is "zeroed out", at the correct balance between
>aperture and shutter speed for the image. The OM10
>appears to have no such mechanism.

No, it doesn't. The OM10 was designed principally as an aperture
priority automatic camera.  When you use it in manual mode, you read
the indicated required shutter speed from the LED display and set the
manual adapter to that speed. In reality, if that's all you want to
do, you may as well leave it in AUTO and exactly the same thing is
achieved (as others have pointed out). The only advantage of manual is
when you have an abnormal lighting situation that the auto exposure
can't cope with. Even then, setting exposure compensation (to
compensate for, say, strong backlighting) with *auto* exposure will
usually achieve the same thing. If the situation is more abnormal than
that (for example if you are carefully balancing flash lighting with
ambient) then you will probably be using a hand held exposure meter
(and flash meter) anyway.

Regards

John Gruffydd (Mold, Wales, UK)

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