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- From: pd@sics.se (Per Danielsson)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: Major advances in camera technology (was Re: Camera Feature Wars - Photo Getting Like Video)
- Message-ID: <PD.92Nov22164031@horus.sics.se>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 15:40:31 GMT
- References: <2004@intermec.UUCP> <1992Nov20.162305.1@cc.helsinki.fi>
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- Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science
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- In-Reply-To: liang@saul.cis.upenn.edu's message of 21 Nov 92 04:05:59 GMT
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- In article <98631@netnews.upenn.edu> liang@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Chuck Liang) writes:
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- >1960's. TTL exposure metering. I'm not sure when exactly this was
- >invented and which was the first camera in incorporate it (Pentax
- >Spotmatic?). This feature really made SLR's a favorite.
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- It was a Topcon camera. I don't recall the model name.
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- >Around 1975(?). The Olympus OM2n introduced TTL-OTF flash metering.
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- Nope, not the OM2n. The original OM2 had OTF flash metering.
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