I kinda suspected that, Moose, but can't complain. I did some comparisons
between the shutter speed display on the XA and my hand-held meter, and
concluded that the XA display was off about one stop. Since the shutter
itself is controlled by a separate cell, I can only hope that the two have
kept in step over the years. I don't have a densiometer, but did lay out
all of the negatives on my lightbox and made my judgment from that.
I never get prints. This time I was able to get a high res scan, which had
not been available previously.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Two Oldies
> On 1/12/2013 1:36 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>> I received an Olympus XA over the Christmas holidays, and finally got a
>> roll of film back to see what it could do. I was concerned about aging
>> of the cells whitch control the shutter speed display and the shutter.
>> From rating Kodak 200 color at 200, 400, and 800, all images were usable,
>> but 400 appeared best.
>
> If you are judging on the basis of automated scans/prints, you really
> can't tell anything about the accuracy of the
> camera's exposure.
>
> Films like you used and automated processing are both specifically
> designed to work together to give pleasing results
> over a wide range of exposures. Nothing wrong with that at all, for the
> intended purpose, but it means one can't tell
> whether an exposure system is accurate or not with them.
>
> Cautionary Moose
>
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