Posted by rick oleson on April 16, 2003 at 08:51:30:
In Reply to: Olympus om 10 posted by brittni on April 15, 2003 at 13:27:47:
What exactly is it (or isn't it) doing? When set on "AUTO", the camera should automatically select a shutter speed to correspond to the amount of light, the film speed and the lens aperture you've chosen. It indicates the automatically selected speed with a red LED in the viewfinder. The indicated speed and the actual speed will match ONLY if there is film in the camera; because it reads the light off the film surface, the shutter will run very slow if you fire it with no film (it will be trying to read light off of the black pressure plate).
The OM10 has a manual exposure function ONLY if you have a "manual adapter" attached at the upper left corner. This has its own shutter speed dial on it, where you select the manual speed. The viewfinder display then only serves to let you know what speed the camera WOULD have chosen, if it were on automatic.
When set on "B", the shutter stays open until you take your finger off of the shutter release button.
If you were thinking of any other automatic functions, such as autofocus, the OM10 doesn't do that.
rick :)=
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