31 Aug
2006
31 Aug
'06
3:53 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
That's the normally-given reason, sure, but I don't really believe it.
Any photogrrpaher who sees the needle is escactly on the 'correct
exposure' mark is going to twidle the conttols just to make sure. And
equally, he'll move the camera about a bit to take reading from different
parts of the subject.
No, I think this is a cover-up for a bit of misdesign...
-tony
[2] Unlike the Pentax Spotmatic where the correct
exposure point is
slightly off-balance (the service manual gives a certain current to be
flowing through the galvaometer coil to get it to the 0 marker). %deity
knows why it was done this way....
So that a dead battery could never give a "correct exposure" indication?