They may be affected. Bright light comes in through eyepiece, passes
through prism, lights up focus screen, light is passed through semi silvered
camera mirror and is read by cell in floor of mirror box.
John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
21 South Lane, Huntington, NY, 11743-4714,
631-424-2121, www.zuiko.com
Olympus OM Service since 1977
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----- Original Message -----
From: "ScottGee1" <scottgee1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 8:41 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: OM1 light meter
>
> John, since you don't mention the OM-3/4 models, can we assume they
> should not be affected?
>
> TIA!/ScottGee1
>
>
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:27:28 -0500, John Hermanson <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, this is very normal for OM-1, 1N, 2, 2N. With 2, 2N, it affects
>> only
>> manual meter setting, as auto exposures are read off the curtain/film
>> during
>> exposure.
>>
>> John Hermanson
>> Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
>> 21 South Lane, Huntington, NY, 11743-4714,
>> 631-424-2121, www.zuiko.com
>> Olympus OM Service since 1977
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Der Eiserne Reiter" <ferider@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 1:20 PM
>> Subject: [OM] OM1 light meter
>>
>> > All,
>> >
>> > a small question that I wanted to ask for a while: On my work-horse,
>> > an OM1, the light-meter is sensitive to the light entering the
>> > eye piece. In other words, when my eye gets closer to the ocular,
>> > the light meter will react, going down by about 1 stop when the ocular
>> > is
>> > covered. The camera is in very good shape, and was claimed to have
>> > been CLA'ed when I bought it on the bay about 2 years ago.
>> >
>> > Is this normal ?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Roland.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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