>
> I don't know whether anyone has mentioned it but Keppler runs on for
> a while in his September Popular Photography column about batteries,
> OM2s, mirror lockup, OM1 PX625 substitutes. Nothing new for this
> list though. Says he is a long time OM2 user which surprised me.
> --
> Winsor Crosby
> Long Beach, California
Some of it is wrong, I believe. He seems to think that if you fire
an OM2 when it is turned off, it will default to a fixed shutter
speed, though he seems to give two different values for that.
I believe that what happens is that it takes a normal auto
exposure, but the shutter speed is limited to prevent long, battery-
draining shots of camera bag interiors or back sides of lens caps.
The autoexposure system is always off until it is turned on by
the mirror flipping up, and the shutter release is purely mechanical,
even though the shutter timing is electrical. The on-off switch
turns on the viewfinder system and turns the shutter speed limit
to a much longer value.
Paul
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