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Subject: [OM] Spot meters
From: Dave Bulger <dbulger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 08:38:55 -0600
All,

When a spot meter says 1 or 2 degree metering area, how does that translate 
to what I see through my viewfinder with a 50/1.4?  I'm not bright enough 
to do the math on this...

I'm taking 2 OM2s bodies and 1 OM1n body to Yosemite, etc. in a month or so 
and, getting into the Zone System, I'm finding that the spot metering area 
on the 2s is larger than I want it to be, particularly if I'm shooting a 
landscape and want to get a reading off of a particular, small rock 1/2 
mile away.

I'm considering buying a spot meter to help me with this -- while changing 
to longer lenses to meter & switching back to the lens I'm going to shoot 
with generally works, it's a royal pain to do so sometimes, and I'm 
thinking a discrete spot meter will help me.  But if the metering area is 
as large as the one on the OM2s...

TIA!

Rgds,

Dave


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