Moose has pretty well covered it. I might add that it is not as fussy on
batteries as the other OM's. You don't necessarily need silver oxides. Also,
you'll have to remove the batteries to take time exposures, to avoid a red
LED light from exposing your film. This is a bit of a pain as time exposures
are often done in dark conditions, not the best time for fiddling with
batteries and battery covers. Also, take a few minutes to turn over the
little plate under the wind lever that operates as the shutter lock, unless
you like that feature and don't mind the wind lever poking you in the face a
bit when shooting. That leaves you with one other fault, a major
annoyance IMO. That is, the shutter button has to be held part way down to
turn on the meter, and it goes out immediately when you take your finger
off the button. That one fault is why mine gets left home in favor of the
OM2s about 98% of the time. If there were some way to put an on/off switch
on the OM2000, and wire up the meter as constant on, that would take care of
that problem as well as the problem of having to remove the batteries for
time exposures. Maybe someone here could come up with a simple solution for
it.
Wayne
>
> Nice enough body. Just doesn't feel or act like an OM. Controls in
> different places. Shutter is vertical metal and it doesn't sound like an
> OM either.
>
> Probably as well made as the double digit OMs, maybe better than some if
> only because it is so simple, less to go wrong. The single digit OM
> bodies were made to much higher standards of ruggedness, reliability and
> longevity.
>
> George has already pointed out the flash and body accesory
> incompatibilities with other OM System gear. He also mentioned the
> higher flash sync speed, spot meter and double exposure capability, but
> didn't elaborate.
>
> The spot meters on the OM-4 and 4 series bodies operate by pushing a
> button that sets a fixed exposure based on the instant, narrow angle
> reading. They have provision for averaging multiple readings, and for
> readings base on highlight and shadow points, making for about the most
> sophisticated exposure system ever for MF cameras and with some
> capabilities generally unavailable on the best of current AF cameras.
> However, they do not provide for continuous readings. A lot of people
> love the OM-2S because it has continuous spot reading in Manual Mode.
> The OM2000 also operates this way, and is the only other and only all
> mechanical OM to do so. Unfortunately, it only shows full stop
> increments of change.
>
> The OM2000 is the ONLY OM mount body with true perfect registration
> multiple exposure capabiltity. All the others require you to do a little
> finger dance where you try to hold the film from moving with the rewind
> crank while pressing down the rewind button and cocking the shutter with
> the wind lever. The OM2000 has a little switch which alows the wind
> lever to cock the shutter without engaging the wind mechanism at all.
> The film never moves. A rather specialized use, but if you need it, the
> OM200 is the only body that has it.
>
> In addition to a higher flash sync speed than any other OM, the OM2000
> has a top speed of 1/2000, higher than any OM-1, OM-2 or double digit
> series body.
>
> The OM2000 also is the only mechanical OM with self-timer
> mirror/aperture prefire. In this respect, it is superior to the 1 and 3
> series bodies for some uses. Take a look at Gary's lens tests and see
> what a difference both mirror and aperture prefire makes.
>
> Also, although the manual says you need to push the self timer all the
> way and delay is 10 sec., it is a simple mechanical device, and will
> easily set as low as about 4 sec. One of my few gripes about the 4
> series bodies is that I have to wait through the whole 12 sec. delay
> each time I want to use mirror/aperture prefire.
>
> Final little tidbits: It has iso setting up to 3200. It has a little
> window to see what film you have in it (OMPC has that too). The battery
> compartment cover is ergonomically way better than other OMs, but made
> of plastic.
>
> Hey, I almost make myself want to take the 2000 out for a spin, but it's
> dark out, so I'll skip it.
>
> Moose
>
> alabbasi@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >Talking of OM-2000's can I have oppinions on this camera? As I understand
it
> >is made by Cosina and Nikon has a similar model. I have read some
negative
> >comments for that reason, is that just Purist talk or is the camera not
that
> >good compared to the other OM's? Nikon and Olympus using it cant make it
> >that bad can it ?
> >
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