Re: [OM] Re: olympus-digest V2 #1893

[Chris Barker]

Not so according to Franz Pangerl.  He says that the LED was 
available on the OM2 to limit exposures to "15 minutes at the most". 
The length may be a guess on his part, but the existence of the LED 
must be fairly certain.
Chris


> This has been covered in the past a couple of times.  One of the
> modifications on the new model OM2n was to add the time limiting led.
> The original OM2 did not have a limiter led and consequently allowed
> much longer auto exposure.  It was for this reason that when presented
> with the choice of keeping the OM2 or the OM2n, I opted for the OM2.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> clintonr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >  In use, however, an OM-2 or OM-2n _may_ keep the shutter open much
> >  longer than one or two minutes.  But both models have a tiny LED peeking
> >  into one of the Silicon Blue Cells to assure that, even in "total"
> >  darkness, the shutter will eventually close.  The P-circuit of the OM-2n
>  > will also cut power after approximately three minutes, anyway.
> >
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Chris Barker
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