This "complaint" came up a few times at Olympus. Ralph Lepore (in
charge of customer service) would hand it to me (not my job) and I
handed it off to a Japanese tech who would telex it to Japan.
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Olympus OM Service since 1977
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Ken Norton wrote:
> (I know, bad subject line...)
>
> Sooo, I'm trying out my new lens, a lovely (even though it's black-nosed)
> Zuiko 50 F1.4 lens--greater than 1,100,000 serial numbered jobby.
>
> I'm curious so I try to see if the aperture wide-open is truly F1.4. Well,
> not so sure. (to be fair, I've always questioned the accuracy of wide-open
> apertures with many lenses, so bear with me).
>
> Using three different cameras, the E-1, the OM-3Ti and the OM-2S, the
> aperture wide-open isn't F1.4, but closer to F1.8.
>
> For example, when tracking the exposures while clicking the aperture ring, I
> get nice multiples except for the last wide-open stop.
>
> F16 at 1/8
> F11 at 1/15
> F8.0 at 1/30
> F5.6 at 1/60
> F4.0 at 1/125
> F2.8 at 1/250
> F2.0 at 1/500
> F1.4 at 1/640
>
> So, my confusion comes in with the the F1.4 reading. Shouldn't it be F1.4 at
> 1/1000? Who took my .56ms?
>
> AG (not nearly as bright as my lenses) Schnozz
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