At 07:41 PM 1/29/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>Anybody notice just how "perfect" the controls on the OM bodies
>are? Today's cameras are just glorified point-and-shoots that
>don't require anything more of the photographer than the ability
>to lamely point the lens in the appropriate direction and push
>the button. Anytime you want to do anything special you have to
>defeat the features of the camera. With cameras like the
>OM-4(T/Ti) you have full and complete control over the focus and
>exposure and absolutely no defeating is required. Proper
>exposure determination on the digitized analog scale and the
>ability to control everything by tactile feel are beyond today's
>camera designs.
>
>Just maybe, the OM-4(T/Ti) really is the best SLR ever designed
>from an exposure control perspective.
>
>AG
It could just be my mind playing tricks on me, but I tend to find analogous
operations to the OM-4 when shooting the C-8080. Less so with metering
malarky since I've come to depend on the live histogram, but every time I
press the AE Lock button, I think of putting a spot reading in memory.
Joel W.
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