On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Brian Swale <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's ironic; now that the OM system is largely redundant, the excellence of
> the manual Zuiko lenses is being appreciated by Canyon digital users
> (apparently, so I'm told), and this is possible because the aperture stop-
> down mechanism is set well before exposure is made.
>
> The Olympus OM optical engineers must have been tearing their hair out in
> frustration at the fact that their very well designed optics didn't deliver
> their
> full potential in practice on OM bodies. I wonder if anybody at Olympus
> actually knew the reason? Or was there serious rivalry between the optics
> people and the others. Did anybody really know before Gary Reese did his
> classic series of tests?
I think they did know insofar as the manual for the OM2 suggested a
technique to trigger the shutter that involved damping the
tripod-based camera and lens with one hand while squeezing off the
shot with the right index finger. This suggests they understood that
the longer lenses accentuated a little jerk from the aperture stopdown
action between camera and lens.
Joel W.
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