On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Per Nordenberg wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Heide Clausen" <thomas.clausen@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 3:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [OM] a new OM4
>
>
> > Hiya Gary et. al.,
> >
> > Contrary to many, I almost exclusively use the spot-metering
> > features. As mentioned before, I prefer the OM2s/p, which per default
> > does one spot-metering when in manual mode.
>
> Actually it does not just "one spotmetering". This mode is active (i.e. light
> is
> metered in the spot circle) as long as the shutter release is depressed
> halfways
> (assuming spot/manual exposure mode have been selected of course). In other
> words:
> this is REAL TIME spot metering (as opposed to the normal way of having a
> single
> fixed spot reading when a spot button is depressed).
>
Hi Per et. al.,
You are almost right.....it does "real time" spot metering, however
that is *NOT* dependant on the shutter release being depressed or
not. If the camera is on and in "manual/spot" mode, then it does spot
metering.
--
Mange hilsner / Sincerely
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Thomas Heide Clausen
Civilingeniør i Datateknik (cand.polyt)
M.Sc in Computer Engineering
E-Mail: T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
WWW: http://www.cs.auc.dk/~voop
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