Sorry - I stand corrected "But when the shutter is fired the spot reading is
cancelled."
To me it's the same thing - press the shutter, immediately advance the film.
Always. I just remembered that you can't fire the shutter twice on one spot
reading unless you set MEMO.
cheers
Jez
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew McPhee <macca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 22:07:29 +1000
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Question about OM-4 spot meter
> At 08:37 PM 21/09/2004 +0100, Jez Cunningham wrote:
>
> >IIRC the short-term spot memory is cleared when you advance the film - so
> >you have to re-spot every frame. UNLESS you twist the little lever "MEMO"
> >which will remember a spot reading after you advance the film. The
> >viewfinder LCD shows MEMO when there is a spot reading stored and the led
> >on the top plate blinks.
> >What do you see in your LCD and does the led blink?
>
>
> Hi Jez,
>
> I hate to contradict you, but the spot memory is not cleared when the film
> is advanced. Which is just as well in the case of my OM-4 because if it did
> clear I'd never be able to use the spot meter. If I take a spot reading I
> can advance the film and the reading is kept, even without using the memory
> function. But when the shutter is fired the spot reading is cancelled.
>
> The viewfinder displays MEMO (when the Memory switch works that is) and the
> top LED blinks.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew McPhee
>
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