Marcus b6 wrote:
Realizing that I stand a good chance of being impaled on a stake, my well
poisoned, my fields salted, and my name wispered as a warning to
children...do people actually like the shutter speed ring placement on OM's?
I mean the darn thing is fiddly and hard to find, especially with a large
lens and tripod ring. I absolutely hate it. I think an OM-10 with its manual
shutter speed accessory might be just the ticket to enjoy my Zuiko glass
more. Is the ring supposed to be a desirable feature, or was it an
engineering neccessity that was carried through the line as a perverse
tribute to the OM-1? It gets worse with my OM-4, because the prism housing
obscures the view of the speed setting, not to mention that confounded and
thrice darned little button that you have to push for "bulb". I keep
thinking I'll get used to the novelty of this arrangement, but I haven't
yet. Promise me I will learn to love it, and I will try harder to believe
that Maitani's genius as a designer is absolute. -Marcus (who otherwise
> loves his Zuiko's; and his compact, full featured camera bodies)
I couldn't agree more. I understand that the shutter ring control
was necessitated by the compact design and features of the OM 1 body.
It is the only engineering solution by Maitani that I do not like
much. It may have been the best one, but I think I would have even
preferred the shutter speed knob on the front like the Pen F. I
think that the continuation of that control on the models with
electronic control of the shutter was maybe to just keep retooling
costs down or as a marketing ploy for uniformity in the OM "family".
It certainly would have been nice to have a knurled wheel around the
shutter release on the automatic cameras which would have been much
easier to use. I tend to use the OM1N as a shutter priority camera
and the OM4T mostly in auto exposure mode as a result which is OK.
Like the old German saying, "Keine Rose, ohne Dorne." There is no
rose without thorns. The rest of the camera is so wonderful that you
will not regret working with, or around, the shutter control.
--
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
mailto:wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx
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