I suppose they could display how many stops down from the max, but not the
absolute f/stop. I wonder what the max range is? 8 1/2 stops? (1.2-16)
Tom
On Saturday, December 15, 2001 at 23:39, Richard F. Man
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "Re: [OM] OM3, manual exposure, shut" saying:
> Oh right, the 4T does not display the aperture. Duh....
>
> At 07:06 AM 12/16/2001 +0000, you wrote:
> >Richard the camera does not "know" the aperture to display it. The OM2SP
> >only controls the aperture by stopping down from what is set. With that
> >camera you normally set it to the minimum aperture so that the Programme
> >mode has the full range of apertures available to use, but a clever part of
> >it is that it will work from whatever is set.
> >
> >Chris
> >
> >At 17:23 -0800 15/12/01, Richard F. Man wrote:
> >>It just dawns on me that the OM-3 is a manual exposure camera. I mean, I
> >>was just assuming it is an OM-4 with a mechanical shutter.
> >>
> >>Oh...
> >>
> >>I have always just use the auto-exposure/spot mode on the 4T. So for fun,
> >>I switched it to the manual mode.
> >>
> >>Hmm.... the shutter speed shows up (but not the aperature!)! I thought
> >>this is one of the oft-requested features of the OM-4! So if there are
> >>enough space on the display, the OM-4 *could* display both the shutter
> >>speed and the aperture?
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