{"id":2211,"date":"2010-05-18T14:12:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T14:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2010-05-18T14:58:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T14:58:48","slug":"olympus-om-2-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/2211","title":{"rendered":"Olympus OM-2 camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Olympus OM-2 camera\" title=\"Olympus OM-2 camera\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/0310\/om2_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My first &#8216;serious&#8217; camera was an Olympus OM-2 SLR, and I loved it so much I ended up getting two \u2014 one in silver and one in black. One of the things that I loved about the camera was the arrangement and design of the controls on the top-plate. You see I was obviously a bit of a UI design geek from a very early age&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Olympus OM-2 camera\" title=\"Olympus OM-2 camera\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/0310\/om2_2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Part of the <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Olympus - OM Series\" href=\"http:\/\/www.olympus-global.com\/en\/corc\/history\/camera\/om.cfm\">OM system<\/a>, first released in 1975 and designed by Yoshihisa Maitani, the OM-2 had the world&#8217;s first TTL direct metering system, which  measures light reflected off the surface of the film. This allowed  exposure control during shooting, and automatic TTL strobe adjustment  using a specially designed strobe (doesn&#8217;t sound much of a big deal now but it was a big deal back then!).<\/p>\n<p>OM system cameras were notable for their relatively small size with the OM-1 and OM-2 just a little bigger than the Leica M4 rangefinder camera and through a system of internal shock absorbers, whilst not quite as quiet as the M4, a lot less noisy than most other SLRs at that time. But what I loved most of all about these cameras and still do now, is the pared back, sleek functional elegance of the design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first &#8216;serious&#8217; camera was an Olympus OM-2 SLR, and I loved it so much I ended up getting two \u2014 one in silver and one in black. One of the things that I loved about the camera was the arrangement and design of the controls on the top-plate. You see I was obviously a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,6,3],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}