On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:18 +0100 (BST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Dallman) wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mike wilson) wrote: > > > I don't know the OM series well at all but I think all of the > > shutters are electromechanical. I know them quite well :) > > The OM-1 shutter is pure mechanical; the only electronics are the > match-needle metering. Don't know about the OM-3; All mechanical. As a matter of fact, I think that there are two seperate mechanical shutter mechanisms, one working for "lower" shutter speeds, one for "higher" shutter speeds. The OM3 is quite a neat camera, actually. > the OM-2 and OM-4 are > electromechanical, and the OM-10 series are far too cheap and nasty > for the taste of the USN. Yup. Not to say that the double-digit OM series (OM-10/20/30/40) are bad cameras, they are just made for a more occational-use market than the single-digit series. --thomas
