Hello Charles,
the big advantage of the OM2, especially in this case: just set the thing to
auto, stop thinking and expose! The OTF (Off The Film) measurement will do
it all for you. In your special case, you should take a high speed film to
get short exposures with your effective f16 combination. I got nice bird
shots with the identical setup, 800 asa film and the long lens rested
against a tree.
The same applies to any piece off glass (or even a pinhole in a piece of
aluminum foil) in front of the camera. It will of course work with your
extension tubes. I did my first real macro shots with a 55/1,2, reversed and
just handheld against the front flange, stopped down with a finger on the
dof preview button, worked amazingly well.
Have fun !
Rainer
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[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]Im Auftrag von Charles Sdunek
Gesendet: Freitag, 8. Juni 2001 04:45
An: Olympus List
Betreff: [OM] tmount lenses
Hello All,
My father and I just went in together on a t-mount 500 mm f8 lense. After
adding a 2x teleconverter attaching the lense to my OM2, and framing a
beautiful shot of two beautiful cranes. Not sure which kind, they were
deer brown with patches of red on the tops of thier heads. Quite large,
about the size of the great blue heron. Anyway, back to the question.
After I had the birds in the frame all nicely focused, I ran into a
situation I have never encountered before. How do I set the exposure? How
do you let the camera know that the lense is fixed at f8 as a normal lense
does? I normally use my cameras in manual mode and in this case, I ended
up just flipping the switch to the almost never used auto side, depending
on the exposure control to take over.
Could some one explain how do the metering with a tmount lense? I suppose
this would also be the case with my manual extension tubes I had hoped to
have had time to use during the last tope window.
Thanks much,
Charles Sdunek
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