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Subject: [OM] Re: Constructive criticism wanted...
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:40:02 +0100
If it was dark enough to require full aperture and 1/60 sec, Phil, I suspect
that focusing on the ground-glass screen was more of a challenge than you
realised! With 'illumination' like that, it is extremely difficult to
discern focused from unfocused.

OM-10 with a dodgy meter?  Haven't I seen that before!  I suspect in my case
it was dirt on the potentiometer tracks - but that body is long gone.  If
you would like to consider an unmarked OM-4 in place of a 2sp, you can guess
who to ask...

--
Piers 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Philip Pemberton
Sent: 27 August 2005 18:07
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Constructive criticism wanted...

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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