Comments on: ooooooo shiny http://bogit.com/wp/2005/03/26/ooooooo-shiny/ well, everyone told me I ought to have one Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:44:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: dmc http://bogit.com/wp/2005/03/26/ooooooo-shiny/comment-page-1/#comment-91 dmc Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:46:26 +0000 http://bogit.com/wp/?p=43#comment-91 that'll be <a href="http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~rwesson/esif/om-sif/bodygroup/om101.htm">this thing</a> then I guess. A bit of a strange beast by the sound of it :-) that’ll be this thing then I guess. A bit of a strange beast by the sound of it :-)

]]> By: ben http://bogit.com/wp/2005/03/26/ooooooo-shiny/comment-page-1/#comment-88 ben Sun, 27 Mar 2005 15:00:18 +0000 http://bogit.com/wp/?p=43#comment-88 I used to have an olympus OM-101, which had something called "power focus", which was manual focus, but electrically operated from a thumbwheel. It gained you none of the advantages of autofocus, but still needed costly AF lenses. It was actually a real pain in the arse. It'd probably have been quite nice as an *addition* to autofocus, though ;) That camera did have the best viewfinder I've ever had the pleasure of using, though. I used to have an olympus OM-101, which had something called “power focus”, which was manual focus, but electrically operated from a thumbwheel. It gained you none of the advantages of autofocus, but still needed costly AF lenses.

It was actually a real pain in the arse. It’d probably have been quite nice as an *addition* to autofocus, though ;)

That camera did have the best viewfinder I’ve ever had the pleasure of using, though.

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