Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Except the older FD lenses from Canon are not quite as good as the Olympus Zuiko lenses. Buy an OM3 or 4 and Zuiko lenses and not the older Canon gear. - -----Original Message----- From: Martin V. Howard [mailto:marho@ida.liu.se] Sent: Monday, January 18, 1999 9:45 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica v Olympus (now off-topic) B. D. Colen wrote: > > the metering system in the OM4 is without a doubt the best in a > non-autofocus camera - up to eight separate spot readings, which it > will average, etc. > I thought the Canon T90 did this too, but with the added advantage that the highlight/shadow buttons don't shift a full number of stops (2.5 or whatever it is), but rather nudge the exposure 0.5 EV in the chosen direction. Strikes me that this would allow much greater control over exposure. M. - -- Martin V. Howard, Application Systems Laboratory, | Dept. of Comp. & Info. Sci., Linkoping University, | Just "DOHH" it! SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden. Tel +46 13 282 421, +----------------+ Fax +46 13 142 231; marho@ida.liu.se; www.ida.liu.se/~marho