My E-1 just works, it's that simple.
I remember back in the 70's when we had lots of the same arguments as to why
our center-weighted metering and auto-flash didn't always work great.
Everybody had to compensate for different scenes. Many people either don't
know how to compensate or have gotten very fat and lazy with matrix metering,
etc.
In fact, the OM-4t isn't much different than any other camera shooting
transparancy/digital. If you blow the highlights, they aren't retrievable.
I've used the E-1's spot meter + exposure-comp several times to properly place
a textured white subject at the right "zone" on the film. Certainly I wish
that the E-1 had the OM-4/4t's multi-spot functionality or highlight/shadow
buttons. But it has something that a film camera doesn't have: the ability to
acutally see (using the histogram) whether that 2.5 stops of over-exposure will
result in a nice, textured-white, zone 9.
And yes, I too find much of attempted mitigation amusing. The technology is
just beginning to mature, but many current implementationa take too many
shortcuts in pursuit of profits, speed-to-market, or feature-itis.
Skip
----- Original Message ---------------
Subject: [OM] Re: E1 vs. 10D, D100, D70, etc...
From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 17:53:35 +0000
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>I become increasingly amused by the excuses, alibis, justifications,
>explainations, and other wordy efforts at mitigation for the failures of this
>technology, none of which I have to concern myself with when using film and
>the muti-spot metering in my OM-4(T)(i)s.
>
>Oh, happy day!
>
>Walt
>
>?You can?t have a light without a
>dark to stick it in.? Arlo Guthrie
>
>
>-------------- Original message from "Piers Hemy" : --------------
>>
>> And one other thing - one image is portrait, the other landscape. Don't
>> forget how center-weighted metering usually assumes that the upper part of a
>> landscape frame is sky, and corrects for that - even if the camera is not
>> held in landscape format. Deoending on which way up or down you held the
>> camera for the first frame could have easily explained +/- 1 stop itself.
>>
>> Piers
>>
>[Humongous snip]
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