John,
This won't do much to solve your problem, although it should
further convince you that you have been -- ahem -- screwed by
incompetent service people.
I took all three of my OM-4T(i)s out on the deck, with 50/1.4 and
100/2 Zuikos, along with my Sekonic Digi Master L-718 meter,
incident and 3 degree spot attachments, and the gray card in the
back of the National Geographic Photographic Field Guide.
No matter how hard I tried, and I tried pretty hard, I couldn't
get the meter and any of the camera/lens combinations to disagree
more than half a stop. Using anything approaching proper metering
technique, they were never more than a third of a stop different
and usually were exactly the same. The difference you're getting
it way beyond anything I was able to make happen.
I hope you can get it fixed. An OM-4T is a terrible thing to
waste.
Walt
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---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "John Hudson" <13874@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 12:22:41 -0300
>
>I had a lengthy phone call from "Mike" at Nortown Photo Service
>[authorized Canadian Olympus service / repair station where my
>OM4T went for CLA] in metro Toronto this morning.
>
>He advised me that the TTL metering system and shutter speeds had
>been accurately calibrated and set to original Olympus standards
>using Olympus supplied or authorized equipment. He also advised
>me that there was no comparison of the indicated output of those
>recalibrations with any other metering devices such as a Sekonic
>meter. He told me that I should choose to use one metering system
>or the other but not both! What seemed to go above his head was
>that the end product of using either one of the two metering
>systems, namely a properly developed negative or slide, should be
>identically exposed regardless of which metering systems was used.
>
--SNIP--
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