I wish that Olympus had made their lenses with half-stop aperture
increments. But very few competitors ever did that (that I know), including
Nikon, Canon, Minolta, and Pentax. (Am I wrong?) Leica and new Voigtlander
lenses have the 1/2 stop dedents, and I really enjoy it. WHat it does mean
is that the F-stops are further apart to make it easier to deal with the
larger number of clcks.
THe reality of the situation is that most manufacturers instead moved to
automatic cameras, which did exactly what was needed, either for the
aperture or the shutter speed.
Skip
From: Roger Wesson <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] OM-1 -- a different metering question
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:31:24 +0000
True enough, but as you can never be more than half a stop away from the
'ideal' exposure (which of course is a very arbitrary thing anyway), I
don't think it'll ever matter. I can't imagine there's any film out
there that can't tolerate half a stop of over/underexposure.
But, if you're striving for perfection, you can set the aperture between
stops. It'll close down to whatever it's set to, whether that coincides
with a marked stop or not. Shutter speed doesn't work the same way,
though, and you can only get the marked values.
Roger
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