On Mon, 7 May 2001, Malcolm Clay wrote:
> >...do people actually like the shutter speed ring placement on OM's?
>
> The fact that the shutter speed ring was accessable from the front like the
> apature ring was one of the main reasons I purchased my OM1 back when it was
> introduced. The alternative of having to fiddle up on top of the camera with
> an ASA-like dial seemed to be asking for trouble. Being able to keep my eye
> glued to the viewfinder and my hand on the lens focus/apature/shutter rings
> was and is a tribue to "Maitani's genius as a designer". However...
..and probably also to the philosophy of the camera just being a tool for
something else, namely taking pictures, and that therefore ones attention
should be on the picture, not on the tool. Keeping the eye "glued to the
viewfinder" (I like that phrase, can I use it?) serves just that.
>
> I will admit that I sometimes fumble trying to use it. On that point, I
> believe it is becuase of the placement of the grip-tabs on the ring.
Well, I kinda like those. In lack of a shytter-speed indication in the
viewfinder (on anything but the 3/4), they do serve to indicate the
shutter-speed. With a little pratice, it's actually possible to tell
exactly which shutter speed the camera is set to just by fondling the
"tabs".
> Notice
> if you place your shutter speed at 1/30th of a second, that the tabs are
> right at 3 and 9 o'clock. Now roatate it up and down the scale. For my grip,
> it "seems" easy to reach from 1/8th to 1/125th of a second. Since I rarely
> try to hand-hold anything less than 1/60th of a second, I wish that the
> grip-tabs were rotated so that the range of 1/60th to 1/1000th would be
> withing easy working range. Either that or extend the tabs so that they form
> a "U" that could be grasped at any speed.
>
> >...as a perverse tribute to the OM-1?
>
> Egad! Blasphemy!!! Get the boiling oil, there are heathen at the gates!
>
hehe - I s*bscribe to that statement :)
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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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