C41
Kodak Portra 400
Kodak Portra 400 is a professional C-41 color negative film known for flexible exposure latitude, natural skin tones, and fine grain.
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The OM-4 Ti (1986) is the titanium-skinned refinement of the OM-4 (1983). Same multi-spot metering system: take up to **eight discrete spot readings** from different parts of the frame, the camera averages them, and you can independently bias toward highlight or shadow with dedicated buttons. OTF metering inherited from the OM-2. The "Ti" adds titanium top and bottom plates, plus the **Super FP flash sync** with the F280 flash — flash sync at any speed up to 1/2000s, decades before TTL focal-plane flash became standard.
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C41
Kodak Portra 400 is a professional C-41 color negative film known for flexible exposure latitude, natural skin tones, and fine grain.
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Kodak Tri-X 400 is a classic black-and-white film known for strong tonality, visible grain, and documentary character.
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Kodak Gold 200 is a daylight-balanced C-41 color negative film with warm color, moderate grain, and a classic consumer-film look.
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About this camera
Multi-spot metering you can average across eight points. The most sophisticated meter ever built into a manual-focus SLR.
| Field | Value |
|---|
| Format | 35mm |
| Mount | Olympus OM |
| Years | 1986–2002 |
| Shutter | 4 minutes (auto) – 1/2000s, electronic horizontal cloth |
| Flash sync | 1/60s standard; 1/2000s with F280 Super FP |
| Meter | TTL OTF SPD, multi-spot averaging up to 8 points |
| Modes | Manual, aperture priority |
| Weight | 510 g |
| Battery | 2× SR44 |
Predecessor OM-4 (1983) had the same metering system in a chrome/black body but suffered from heavy battery drain — the LCD finder display ate cells. The OM-4 Ti (1986) added titanium plates and a champagne color option; the OM-4 Ti Black (1989) followed. Late 1990s revisions reduced battery drain. Production ran 16 years until 2002 when Olympus ended OM production. The OM-3 Ti (1995) is the all-mechanical sibling — same metering, no AE.
Multi-spot metering changed how serious photographers worked in tricky light. Before it, you used a hand-held spot meter and bracketed; the OM-4's eight-point in-camera spot averaging let you compose, take readings on shadow detail, highlight detail, midtones, average them, and shoot — all without leaving the eyepiece. Ansel Adams enthusiastically endorsed the OM-4 system in interviews; he saw it as bringing zone-system metering into 35mm.
The Super FP flash sync with the F280 was the first system to break the X-sync limitation of vertical-shutter cameras. It would be a decade before Nikon and Canon caught up.
Same OM Zuiko system. T-series flashes (T20, T32) for standard sync; F280 for Super FP. T-Power Control, Macro flash unit. Motor Drive 2.
BW
Ilford HP5 Plus is a flexible ISO 400 black-and-white film with classic grain and strong push-processing tolerance.
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Kodak Ektar 100 is a fine-grain C-41 color negative film with saturated color and high sharpness.
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