>
>Mark Hammons wrote:
>>If OM-2Sp spot metering does NOT allow the camera to "MEMORIZE" a spot
>>reading like
>>the OM-3(t) and OM-4(T[i]) cameras do -- that is to say its spot meter is
>>working all
the
>>time -- even up until when you compose your picture. Thus, on AUTO or
>>Program it would
>>always force you to expose on the center of the composition, which kind of
>>destroys the
>>whole rational behind spot metering.
>
>
>Thanks Mark, I think I get the picture now. Maybe one can see the spot
>metering of
OM-2S/P and OM2000 as a kind of "poor mans version" (albeit a usable one) of the
multi-spot metering of the more expensive OM-3 and OM-4?
>
>
Yes, I think that is the case -- its the poor man's version.
>
>
>>One, I guess, could argue that the OM-2Sp should have had a button that
>>allowed one to
>>lock the exposure. I don't know the story behind why it didn't but I'll bet
>>it had to
do
>>with Marketing :-)
>
>
>
>
>My IS-3000 has a spot button with which I can get a fixed (not storable) spot
>reading in
all exposure modes (except flash photography and in Night-Scene mode), but I
have found
the real time spot metering of my OM-2SP far superior. It is much better to
have spot
metering working continouosly in manual, than having a separate spot button
which
sometimes is not easy to reach (and having to check in the viewfinder all the
time whether
it has been engaged or not). The only drawback I can possibly think of would be
when you
do flash photography with the OM-2SP in manual.
>
>Per Nordenberg
>
One problem I see with manual is that you can only work in 1-stop steps. In
Automatic
or Program ) you
can work in 1/3rd stop steps by using the film-speed dial. It would be nice to
be able to
STORE a spot
reading in Automatic, even if its only one spot reading -- not multispot, and
then
compensate with the film
speed dial. The only way to do that in Manual is by setting the aperture
between F-stop
clicks. Thats
another thing I wish zuiko lenses had -- apertures that adjust in 1/2 stop
clicks ( Leica
does that on
lots of their lenses!).
Mark Hammons
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