At 11:50 PM 12/22/2008, Moose wrote:
>John Hermanson wrote:
>> Yes, on the 3 and 3Ti they coulda shoulda used a self timer mechanism right
>> out of an OM-1.
>>
>And yet ... those are pretty useless. It seems to me that Gary's lens
>tests showed pretty conclusively that the mirror lock-up of the OM-1 was
>singularly ineffective at controlling vibration.
The amount of force required to make sure every possible lens
aperture could be operated in time, is what causes a lot of vibration.
Hence aperture pre-fire solves a lot of vibration issues with the OM's.
And not something the OM-1 can do. The OM-4t with self-timer works.
WayneS
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