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Re: [OM] 3ti and 4ti question

Subject: Re: [OM] 3ti and 4ti question
From: will biesele <bill@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:12:19 -0700
Seems like I heard here that Olympus/Maitani claimed the 3's didn't need
mirror lockup since they were so smooth. ?????. 

Since the aperture mechanism isn't needed for astrophotography, how hard
would it be to remove the aperture mechanism from an OM1 body? It would
also be handy for macro with the bellows or the manual macro lenses.

Just a thought,

Bill Biesele


> I never could figure that out. I think it was one of Oly's big design 
> mistakes. If nothing else, mirror lockup would have given them a small 
> but steady market for astrophotography. Instead of dropping the 
> mechanical mirror lockup, they could have added aperture pre'fire' to 
> the same type of lever and had something really unique and useful. I 
> dislike the unadjustable self-timer delay for mirror and aperture 
> prefire on the OM-4(T(i))s, but find it preferrable to nothing. Gary's 
> tests don't make everything clear, but they sure do make the point about 
> vibration reduction.
> 
> Moose

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