Arnab;
Check the OM-200 manual. I briefly looked at mive and I recall the meter is
very limited at the low EV levels. This behaviour you see might be expected.
Why it seems to differ from the reading the OM-10 gives you could be 'normal'
tolerances, or one or the other (or both) meters are a bit out. Try both using
sunny f/16, ie: Point each camera with the same lens at a clear blue north sky
on a sunny day. Set the lens to f/16. The shutter speed shoud read within about
+/- 1/2 stop from the reciprocal of the ASA.
George
At 09:38 AM 7/12/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi gang,
>I have been using the OM 2000 for a couple of months now, and am happy with
>it overall. However, a week ago while shooting in low light conditions, I
>noticed something peculiar in the 2000. Let me try to explain it (hope I am
>coherent).
>Let's say a scene requires an exposure of 1/2 sec at f8 on a 100 ASA film.
>On my OM 10, I set the aperture to f8 and the film speed to 100 and the LED
>lights up at 2 on the left hand side of the viewfinder (indicating that the
>shutter should be 1/2 sec). Opening the aperture to f5.6 makes the LED light
>up at 1/4 sec. Or, keeping the speed at 1/2 sec and aperture at f8, turning
>the film speed dial to ASA 200 again makes the LED light up at 1/4 sec to
>indicate the correct exposure. All fine so far, normal camera behavior.
>On my OM 2000, for the same scene setting an exposure of 1/2 sec at f8 on a
>100 ASA film causes the minus LED to light up indicating underexposure.
>(Although the green LED indicating perfect exposure should light up).
>Opening the aperture to f5.6 or f4 or f 2.8 has no effect. Turning the film
>speed dial to 200, 400, 800 etc. also has no effect.
>So, my query is this does the OM 2000 meter stop working at speeds below
>1/4 second?
>Puzzled,
>Arnab.
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