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Re: [OM] Mirror and Aperture Prefire

Subject: Re: [OM] Mirror and Aperture Prefire
From: Joel Wilcox <jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 18:03:50 -0500
At 08:19 PM 7/10/99 +0200, you wrote:
>Joel, Barry,
>thanks... I see... But let's assume you're photographing e.g. Formula 1
>racing and will (of course) use very high shutter speeds like 1/1000 to
>1/500, I would think that this is shorter than any vibration of the camera
>itself thereby eliminating this danger, or is it not?
>
>With a tele like that, one should be at 1/250 and up anyway, at least for
>free hand shooting, or so I hear and read. Happy to hear your comments and
>experiences.
>
>I have only an OM-2 only at this time, anyway, so I'm not sure whether it
>can prefire or not. Will try it out.
>
>Thomas
>

Thomas,

The timer/mirror/aperture pre-fire routine is useful for basically
stationary subjects with a tripod-mounted camera shooting at shutter speeds
slower than should be hand-held. 

I think there is no provision for mirror lockup and aperture pre-fire with
timer on the OM-2.  This is a refinement added by the time Olympus got
around to designing the OM-2S.

Joel Wilcox
Iowa City, Iowa USA

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