Focus at full aperture, meter at stopped down aperture when using manual
aperture lenses (or auto lenses on manual tubes) on the OM. Don't try to
focus when stopped down.
But I think you knew that anyway!
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Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Matthew Born
Sent: 25 January 2005 15:16
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: macro stuff
--snip
I was (am) confused by the expression 'stop down' focusing -- wouldn't
closing down the aperature make focusing harder? Am I missing something
painfully obvious here?
--snip
On 1/24/05 9:33 PM, "Listar" <listar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It works differently on the manual tubes - as you stop down, so the
> viewfinder image gets even darker (the side effect of the extension
> tubes is that the viewfinder image is darker anyway).
--snip
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