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From: ddb@mrvax.DEC (DAVID DYER-BENNET MRO1-2/L14 DTN 231-4076)
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Subject: Waggling needles, blinking lights
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 10:56:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  1 10:56:16 1985
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>DIODES IN THE FINDER???  I mean, LITTLE RED PLUSES AND MINUSES???
Absolutely.  Needles are too delicate for serious work, when there is a
good alternative.

>The biggest deal in match needle exposure reading for me is that you
>not only know whether you are under or over exposure, but BY HOW MUCH.
>And not the paltry 1 stop or so those plus and minus signs give you.
I haven't used an FE or FE-2 (I bought FM and FM-2, because I didn't
want little needles waggling around in my viewfinder :-), but on my
Miranda and Pentax cameras (old, no longer with me) the match-needle
setup didn't give me anything except "right on" and +/- half stop.
Same as the lights in my FM[-2]

>  The
>only FM owner I know of went to LED's because she couldn't see the needle
>through her glasses.
I went to FM because of increased ruggedness (partly on the recommendation of
some professional friends of mine).

>	Ron Christian  (Watkins-Johnson Co.  San Jose, Calif.)
>	{pesnta,twg,ios,qubix,turtlevax,tymix,vecpyr}!wjvax!ron
>	"What do you mean you backed it up the wrong direction???"

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