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Subject: [OM] What's wrong with this lens?
From: kquarles@xxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:10:29 +0000
I recently came into possession of a Zuiko 35mm/f2.8 
Shift lens, and my camera (an OM-4T in this case) 
doesn't seem to meter correctly with it.

For comparison, I metered a uniformly-lit surface using 
the normal 35/2.8 wide open and got a reading of 1/125 
(which seems reasonable).  When I mount the 35 Shift and 
meter the same surface with the lens wide open I get a 
reading of about 1/4 (which seems quite unreasonable).

It is almost as though the camera thought it had an 
automatic lens stopped down 5 stops.  What could cause 
this behavior?  Is this some sort of linkage problem?

And, yes, I know this lens has a manual aperture and I 
have to do stopped-down metering.  That's why I noted 
above that both lenses were wide-opn for the test.

Any good pointers will be appreciated.

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Keith Quarles
kquarles@xxxxxxx

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