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Subject: [OM] Re: Constructive criticism wanted...
From: Ali <oly-zooko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:21:34 -0400
Some guy is selling an OM-2S(p) on photo.net. No connection...just an FYI.



Philip Pemberton wrote:

>Hi,
>  I've just got my holiday photos back, and I've noticed a bit of a problem
>on most of the negatives.
>  All of the photos I took where the subject was between 4m and 10m away are
>hopelessly out of focus, even though they appeared to be perfectly in focus
>in the viewfinder. I didn't use the prism or "image slicer" focus aids,
>because they don't seem to work very well on my OM10 for some reason
>(especially in very light/very dark conditions). Aperture was full-open (f1.8
>for the shots taken with my Zuiko 50mm, f4 for the ones I did with the Tokina
>80-200) due to low light conditions. Most of the time, the exposure metering
>came up with stupid figures (1/250 in the middle of a dark woodland area, I
>think not) so I set the camera on 1/60. Camera is an Olympus OM-10 with
>Winder 2 (I want an OM2sp!).
>  I've uploaded some of the photos to
><http://www.philpem.castlecore.com/gallery/> (in the Scotland album),
>with more to come just as soon as my Epson 2400 scans them and I tweak the
>colour correction a little. I really do need to get a negative scanner, but
>I've been promising myself an OM2sp for ages... hm... decisions, decisions.
>  IMHO, 07A is probably the worst and 16A is probably somewhere near the
>best. Or rather it would have been if it were a little lighter, but that's
>more or less what it looked like in real life...
>
>  I'm going to stop waffling on about nothing in particular now, otherwise
>this message will never get sent :)
>
>Thanks.
>  
>


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