Rob,
You'll toughen up if you just keep using the 4T long enough. ;-)
My first OM was the OM-1 and I got pretty good setting exposures with
it. You kind of have to learn to use the meter as though it is the world's
widest spot meter, meter your hand, etc., to shoot chromes consistently
well. Not bad skills to develop by any means. The winding on a
well-maintained OM-1(N) is indeed wonderful.
But I now think the metering system on my 4T (and even my 2S) is simply
better and results are very repeatable. I am often up early, shooting long
exposures on slow film, and spot metering in auto mode makes many difficult
exposures now fairly easy to perform with the 4T.
Not knocking the OM-1, just praising the steady march of OM while the march
was on.
Joel W.
At 01:55 PM 4/4/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Yeah, enough cannot be said about that little camera. I grew up on an
OM-1n. Now I'm shooting with an OM-4T most of the time and there are all
kinds of little ergonomic quirks that may be fine if you got used to them
first, but don't feel quite right if you grew up with an OM-1n. One of the
ones that bugs me the most is the sharp edge on the front of the prism
housing. From time to time when I'm changing lenses I cut a groove in my
thumbnail or index fingernail because rotating the lens out of or into the
bayonet mount rubs my nail against that sharp edge.
-Rob
On Friday, April 4, 2003, at 01:33 PM, Donald MacDonald wrote:
The OM1n is a jewel, and yet a very practical and sturdy jewel.
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