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Re: [OM] Low light level

Subject: Re: [OM] Low light level
From: "John A. Prosper" <prosper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 00:10:40 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, George M. Anderson wrote:

|Hank;
|
|As always, great photos!
|
|One comment - if your 4T only auto-exposes to 15 seconds, there is
|something wrong with it. They should get to 2-3 minutes.

Actually, they should get 4 minutes, according to the manual (although
I haven't tested that limit myself).


|nfoltz wrote:
|> 
|> Dear Lars and other low light level photographers,
|> 
|> I think the OM2 and the OM2 series cameras excel at low light level.
|> I have used my OM2s on various microscopes to obtain correct
|> fluorescence
|> microscopy  exposures where an OM4T failed due to its 15 second cutoff.
|> 
|> I have heard that the OM2 with its two SBC's is the champion of low
|> light level
|> OTF (off the film) exposure.   The Kodak Ektachrome P1600 film is
|> excellent
|> for low light level color photomicroscopy.
|> 
|> Hope this helps,
|> 
|> Hank Hogan <hogant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|> 
|> PS
|> 
|> I've got some new hummingbird photos on my website at
|> http://flzhgn.home.mindspring.com/hek2.htm
|> 
|> The photos of the hummingbird feather were taken with an OM2s fitted
|> with the
|> Zuiko 50mm Macro focussed at infinity on a Tripod looking into the
|> occular of an American Optical Dissecting microscope.  The film was
|> expired Ecktachrome 200 which had "lost its punch" but Adobe Photoshop
|> (LE) saved the day, once again.
|> 
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