For the record: setting the OM-1 between shutter speed clicks will NOT
produce the correct shutter speed. The speed cam is stepped into definite
separate speeds.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Lama-Jim L'Hommedieu" <lamadoo@xxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Pictures at the beach question
> It's completely intuitive to me since I learned about exposure when I was
shooting color slides on an OM-1.
>
> An unexposed (but mounted) frame is black. As you add exposure, the frame
gets lighter. That's intuitive.
>
> If you take the OM-1 to the beach and meter the sand/sky combination, you
need to *ADD* exposure to render the white sands as
> lighter than neutral grey.
>
> There's no exposure compensation dial on the OM-1, so you center the
needle with the aperture. When you center the needle with the
> aperture ring, you can center the needle exactly since OM lens can be set
between detents (clicks). YOU CAN'T RELIABLY SET SHUTTER
> SPEEDS BETWEEN CLICKS.
>
> Then changing the shutter dial to a slower speed (overexposure) by one
click gives you precisely one stop of "overexposure" which
> paradoxically is the "correct exposure" for the scene.
>
> The needle will be above the zero space indicating that the scene will be
rendered on transparency film as something LIGHTER than
> medium gray.
>
> Lama
> Now playing in my head: "You've got to get yer mind right, Luke. What we
have here is a failure to communicate."
>
>
>
>
> From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > And keep in mind that this is all counterintuitive - like shooting black
> > people; you'd think you'd want to open up because that's what the meter
> > will tell you to do - when in fact you want to either keep the exposure
> > for the overall scene and burn in the subjects, or you want to reduce
> > the exposure.
>
>
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