I think the OM-10 curtain pattern might be different simply because there is
only one otf cell, and that pattern allowed the single cell to "see" the
average scene as 18%.
John
Robert Ashdown wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Lee Hawkins has a web page with images of the OM2 pre-78 and post-78
> curtain patterns. I was fiddling with my old (sadly now defunct) OM10,
> and noticed how completely different its pattern is to the OM2. It has a
> black area vertically up the centre of the curtain. Did this imply they
> saw a different main type of photograph being taken with this camera, eg
> portraits of standing people as opposed to landscape-type shots, or was
> the whole system of reading the light completely different?? Did Olympus
> do other experimentation with patterns? What does the OM4 have?
>
> Curious!
>
> Cheers
> Robert Ashdown
>
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