Curtis P. Hedman wrote:
I decided to try pin-hole photography with my OMs recently... I bought a
body cap with a drilled piece of stainless steel in the center. When I
tried it out on my -4T, I expected a pretty long "open shutter" time,
given the f/stop is on the order of 180 or so. To my surprise, almost
every exposure I tried clicked off at about 12-14 seconds, regardless of
what I pointed the camera at.
That's much longer than I usually use for my OM pinhole body cap.
I'd say put the camera on manual, meter a stable daylight scene with a
handheld meter and record the exposure data, then put on the pinhole and
bracket from 1/4 second to 8 seconds, develop, and see what the best
exposure was. Use that exposure and the metering data to compute a
proper daylight exposure for the cap.
(My body cap is home made, copper sheet instead of stainless, I didn't
feel like springing for one of those laser-drilled apertures.)
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