OM-2 and OM-2N circuit boards are virtually identical except for solder
position of off-limiter LED. SBCs are the same with same single element
lenses.
John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
21 South Lane,
Huntington, NY, 11743-4714,
631-424-2121, www.zuiko.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Davies" <julian_davies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 4:26 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: OM Metering
>
> That's the curtain design, not the meter weighting.
> The horizontal component of the centre weighting comes from the curtain,
> the
> vertical component from the design of the meter array, with an overlap of
> the fields of view of the two SBCs, if I remember my Pangerl correctly -
> don't have it to hand.
> When the curtain changed, the meter array did not, leaving the metering as
> a
> vertical line preferred.
> Neither Mr Pangerl nor I make any comment about exactly how strong the
> resulting centre weighting is, but that's how it was supposed to work.
>
> Julian
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 2:27 AM
> Subject: [OM] Re: OM Metering
>
>
>> Only on early OM-2 bodies. And it's not really center weighted, more
>> like horizontal band weighted. Later OM-2 bodies and all OM2n bodies
>> have center weighted viewfinder readings for Manual, but Auto exposure
>> is overall average exposure. About the only reason I sometimes used
>> Manual on my 2n.
>>
>> Moose
>>
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