Talk:Olympus OM system

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[edit] Built-in spot meter

The following comment has been added by 209.124.143.185 into the article. I moved it here, feel free to correct the article accordingly if required (I am not into cameras). —Agentbla ^(talk) 20:44, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[The "It was the first camera with a built-in spot meter " is not entirely correct; please research earlier spot-meter equipped 35mm Olympus rangefinder "35SP" and also other manufacturers of 35mm SLRs, even Mamiya/Sekor made a passable spot-meter equipped 1000DTL model. These were primitive by comparison to the exquisite Olympus OM-4, but were beginnings of a better breed of built-in metering systems. The spot meter made the transition from hand-held meters into cameras in the 1970s; usually alongside a more primary wider sensor meter mode, such as Mamiya's; with a button or a switch to activate the spot meter feature, or to change from one meter field of view to another.]