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RE: [OM] An old friend

Subject: RE: [OM] An old friend
From: "John Wheeler" <wheelej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:57:45 +1100
G'day John,

Jim L'Hommedieu [lamadoo@xxxxxxxx] sent in a post the other day mentioning
his Kodak 'Pocket Photoguide' and when I noticed one on e*ay I bid for it
and won. Although printed in 1984 it really is a handy thing to have in the
camera bag and has lots of twirly calculators to play with. I managed to
check on the meters in my OM-1, -2 and campare all against the guide and my
old Weston. Very useful.

John.

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Subject: [OM] An old friend


When I first started taking photographs I was given a Box Brownie by
my mother and was totally unaware of the mysteries of exposure and
light measurement. All I knew was that if it wasn't sunny the
photograph "didn't come out" and there were many of those.

Eventually I got a folding Kodak 620 that had speeds (3) and
apertures! What did I make of those? At first I tried what "it said on
the box" but sophistication came with one of those rotating plastic
exposure calculators.

SLR's with TTL metering, and a Gossen Profisix made that little
calculator long forgotten.

And then, clearing out a cupboard, it turned up.

When I remembered what BS film speed was (a logarithmic index in which
the numbers are 10 higher than the DIN index) I tried it out against
the Profisix.  Absolutely amazing! With reasonable care it was
possible to get within one stop of the Profisix reading every time -
certainly good enough for a tolerant negative film and invaluable if
no batteries in the OM1 and no exposure meter.

A good little friend has returned, never to be banished again.



John Gruffydd (Mold, Wales, UK)


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