Big announcement. OM System is flipping the script on the aperture.
Introducing the Aperture Realignment Standard. ARS. Finally, f-stop values that make sense: big number, big opening. Small number, small opening. Revolutionary.
Because let us be honest: “Small aperture, big number. Big aperture, small number. Didn’t ever make sense.” It has confused photographers for decades.
As a longtime Olympus shooter, I am proud to report the company tried to right this wrong sixty-plus years ago. Exhibit A: my father’s Olympus Pen FT, which I rotate on camera to demonstrate the new number-designated readings.
OM System, formerly Olympus, is finally doing it. “They’re going to flip the script on the aperture.” It is about time.
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April Fool’s.
(If you believed it for even a second, do not feel bad. Aperture numbers never made sense to anybody.)
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