Wow! At last I hear about this on the list :^)
remember to have read about this on Modern Photog quite a few years ago.
First time I tested this secret, with some skepticism, was on 1991 when
studying in Paris and wanted to shoot the top of the Place de la Bastille
monument using my 200/4 @ f32. Sun was just above the figure at the top, and
although I screwed my Tamron linear pol., the E100 was to be exposed with
the needle above on the red mark on Auto mode. To my surprise, sky rendered
a saturated blue, a full stop underexposed I guess due to meter reading the
Sun on a clear sky. I repeated the test with the Tour Eiffel: dark silouette
on a saturated clear blue sky, 28/2.8 @ f22 + Oly linear pol. as a neutral
density filter.
John, does the 2n behave the same? I suppose it does.
Tanks once again.
Fernando.
> From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:03:42 -0500
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [OM] Re: OM-1 to OM-4T - worth an upgrade?
>
> BTW, an OM-2 that is properly setup, set on auto, has a 'secret' top shutter
> speed of 1/2000 th. That is, if, when on auto, the needle is pointing to
> 1000, when you open the lens one more stop, shutter will fire somewhere
> between 1/1500 - 1/2000th.
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