The Ti/T (depending on market) versions tended to have updated circuitry that resulted in better battery life.i have the OM3.
Is the Ti just a difference in the material of the body, or is there a lot more than that.?
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The OM3ti is the holy grail of the OM range imo. Alas the collectors have driven the prices so high that it doesn't make financial sense to have it do anything but sit on a shelf. Then again, of what importance is financial sense when it comes to boys and their toys?
I do hope that you get one and spend lots of time trying to wear it out. Not something I can afford to do, so you'll have to do it for me.
The metering system, including the very well featured spot metering system.But really, other than a “modern” metering system, how different is OM3 be from the OM1n? Other than bragging rights of course. Are there big differences? The OM’s weren’t built to be the tanks that the pro Nikons and Canon F1’s were but they have the major (to me) advantage of being small, relatively quiet and lightweight.
I had an OM4 and it was pretty decent.
I liked my OM1 but found that for some reason that it wasn't super accurate at very thin depths of field, despite the high magnification of the viewfinder. This was noticeable with the 50mm lens but also noticeable with a 28mm. I found that despite accurate in my focusing, the results would be slightly off. This applied to two OM1's that I worked on and found another user who ran into the problem. There must be something off with the prism, mirror or something but it was, unfortunately, quite disconcerting and meant I had to abandon the OM1 cameras for critical focusing work.
I meant to ask The Forum....... from the website "the electronics has been improved to reduce the battery drain that was clearly too high in the OM-3"The Ti/T (depending on market) versions tended to have updated circuitry that resulted in better battery life.
And there are enhanced flash capabilities.
Here is a good synopsis: http://omesif.moosemystic.net/om-sif/bodygroup/om3ti.htm
The batteries in my OM4 last 4-6 months, my 4Ti 12 months. Batteries are cheap so it is not really a big deal.I meant to ask The Forum....... from the website "the electronics has been improved to reduce the battery drain that was clearly too high in the OM-3"
Was the battery just hit hard during metering, or was it a situation where the battery was drained whenever it was in camera.?
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When the battery is in the camera.Was the battery just hit hard during metering, or was it a situation where the battery was drained whenever it was in camera.?
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Oh... OK.When the battery is in the camera.
Most likely a consequence of the circuitry that will give you automatic exposure even if you forget to turn the meter on before releasing the shutter.
IIRC, Maitani's design philosophy for the OM system valued highly the ability to respond rapidly to a photographic opportunity. Thus the inclusion of a metering circuit that would turn itself on and set the exposure instantly when one needed to quickly catch a photographic opportunity.
An instant on circuit will use more battery power.
It is too bad that Olympus changed the 0.92X magnification of the OM1&2 down to 0.84X magnification of the OM3&4. However, the OM3&4 do have diopter control built-in.
Would you be offended if i quoted a SMALL Portion of text from your website.?Ok, so let me give you an update on my conversion to the Olympus system, I started this thread.
I purchased the OM4Ti and four lenses 50mm f1.4, 28mm f2.8, 35mm f2 and the 135mm f2.8.
All were listed as mint and for the most part they are. The camera was in like new shape however the spot metering function did not work so I've had to send the body back.
if they can't get the metering to work properly, I'll purchase again. Still like the OM3 but likely over priced.
I'll keep you posted.
It was well written.i didn't know that was on my website. It was part of my thesis for my MFA. I got into photography because of Paul.
Olympus merely followed the path set for all SLR models...include much MORE INFORMATION in the viewfinder, forcing the magnification to be LOWERED in order to still see the focusing screen AND all the information displayed around the edges!
Even the current Canon 5D MkIV dSLR has viewfinder magnification = 0.71X
and the high end Canon 1Dx MkII dSLR has viewfinder magnification = 0.76X
All OMs - 1, 2, 3 & 4 cameras don't even have aperture showing in the VF so really there isn't much info that will take up much screen real estate. My guess is they went the way of all the others - except for select Pentax models, with the smaller magnification in the 3 & 4.
Of course all DSLRs are auto focus cameras and they all have tiny viewfinders as they pretty much abandoned manual focusing just like all the other AF film cameras before them.
Mechanical lenses can't display aperture selected, no electrical contacts passing that information (I know, some cameras had optical view of the selected aperture).
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