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RE: [OM] TOPE: Landscapes (or how not to use the 21/3.5)

Subject: RE: [OM] TOPE: Landscapes (or how not to use the 21/3.5)
From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 13:11:01 +1100
> I was thinking of entering a photo of snowfall up here
> in Rochester, which is also my first test of the 21mm
> I got a short while ago. Scratch that right off. I'm
> afraid to say the pics I took were simply awful. Even
> at 1/1000 speed and f16 on the OM-1n the snow was
> bright enough to induce an incredibly huge amount of
> glare. No contrast, no features. The pics were so
> overexposed even the huge latitude of Portra 160
> couldn't save them. And the scenes were so pretty to

Sounds to me like the lens was not stopping down for the exposure.

...Wayne


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