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[OM] Re: Wandering around with the E-3

Subject: [OM] Re: Wandering around with the E-3
From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:47:22 +1100
> 
> Garth Wood a écrit :
> > 6. Multi-spot metering!  Again, another firmware update could make 
> > this
> > available (though it would be a bit more awkward than the 
> way the OM-4 
> > did it...).  The single-spot (and single-spot with shadow/highlight 
> > bias) settings work reasonably well, but I sure do miss 
> that multi-spot. 
> >   Makes doing zone work much easier.
> >
> >
> >   
> I've met some days ago at a pres presentation in Amsterdam 
> Mr. Kawamura, 
> Technical Marketing Manager of the Imaging Business Unit Group of 
> Olympus Europa. As I said him I was a OM user from the OM1, 
> he told me 
> in was in the team who developed  the OM4  Ti...so I  ask him  about 
> the  introduction  in the  E-line  of this  multi-spot measure we are 
> all waiting for...
> He said me that it's in the pipeline for the future, so there is some 
> hope. 

Well, I don't really see much value in multispot metering on a digital where
you can examine a histogram, see blown highlights and have automatic
bracketing.  If you've got time to spot meter various parts of the scene
then you've got time to look at a histogram.

...Wayne



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