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RE: [OM] OM-1 -- a different metering question

Subject: RE: [OM] OM-1 -- a different metering question
From: "Daniel J. Mitchell" <DanielMitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:35:25 -0700
> True enough, but as you can never be more than half a stop away from the
> 'ideal' exposure (which of course is a very arbitrary thing anyway), I
> don't think it'll ever matter.  I can't imagine there's any film out
> there that can't tolerate half a stop of over/underexposure.

 Okay, that's pretty much what I'd thought, but it's nice to have it
confirmed.
 
> But, if you're striving for perfection, you can set the aperture between
> stops.  It'll close down to whatever it's set to, whether that coincides
> with a marked stop or not.  Shutter speed doesn't work the same way,
> though, and you can only get the marked values.

 So as long as I can convince the aperture ring to not 'click' into
position, it's effectively analogue rather than digital? I guess that makes
sense now that I think about the mechanics inside it..
 
 thanks!

 -- dan

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