and metal body casting (with plastic skin). The Cosina badged body was
a plastic casting.
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Moose wrote:
> Dawid Loubser wrote:
>> OM-2000? Never! I do appreciate finely-crafted instruments, thank you :-)
>>
>
> Have you ever seen/handled/used one? It's clearly not a true OM, but
> neither is it cheesy feeling. A nice, solid feeling little body. It has
> features that are either unique or unique combined in one body, within
> OMdom.
>
> 1. All mechanical. Battery is only for light meter.
>
> 2. Full mirror-aperture pre-fire. 1 & 2 together are unique in a useful way.
>
> 3. Adjustable delay, mechanical self-timer. Important as it means only a
> 3-4 sec. minimum wait for pre-fire vs. fixed 12 sec. on OM-2Sp and OM-4
> series. You can actually activate and use it for vibration control about
> as quickly than the mechanical aperture/mirror lock-up mechanism on a
> Nikon F2, depending on your manual dexterity. 2 & 3 together are unique
> in a useful way.
>
> 4. 1/2000 shutter speed
>
> 5. 1/125 flash sync. Fastest of any OM and twice that of the non AF bodies.
>
> 6. Truly unique - It's the only OM mount body ever to feature perfectly
> registered multiple exposures without pain. On all other OMs, one must
> wind the film tight with the rewind crank and hold that, while
> activating the rewind lever or button and cocking the shutter with the
> advance lever. It's a high dexterity dance with minimal chance of
> complete success. Too much tension and the film moves back, too little
> and it moves forward. The OM2000 has a little lever that decouples the
> wind lever from the film advance mechanism, allowing the shutter to cock
> with no film movement at all.
>
> There are a few uses for which it is the best OM mount film body.
>
> Moose
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