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Subject: Re: [OM] Newcomer questions...
From: Paul Van Tuyl <olympusguy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 14:16:13 -0600
We have the caps. Paul.

John Hermanson wrote:

> Tokyo stopped production of the MD caps (chrome CA9451, black CA9471) long 
> ago,
> and Olympus America ran out of their supply atleast 6 months ago.
>
> John
> Camtech
>
> Kennedy wrote:
>
> > In article , Julian Mattay <Julian.Mattay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> > >>On the way home today I stopped at a hole in the wall store that always
> > >>seems to have a lot of manual stuff.  They had an OM-1 in nice condition,
> > >>no hot shoe, except it was missing what appeared to be a winder cover 
> > >>(next
> > >>to the battery cover) and they had no lenses for it, preventing me from
> > >
> > >G'day Readers,
> > >
> > >I remember reading/hearing somewhere (very vague recollection) that light 
> > >can
> > >infiltrate in to the film area if the winder connection hole on OM-1's is 
> > >not
> > >covered.
> > >Can anyone confirm or rebut this?
> > >
> > There was certainly a warning about this in the manuals of both the OM-1
> > and OM-2, but I ran some tests on my OM-1 back in the mid-70's and had
> > no sign of fogging through the socket - despite firing a flashgun
> > directly into the open MD socket a few times!  It could just be caution
> > on Olympus part, or I might have been lucky with the camera I had - it
> > was one of the first production MD capable cameras, before they thought
> > of putting MD plates on to distinguish between them.  Either way its
> > worth replacing the cap to prevent the ingress of dirt and dust which
> > will just gum up the works.
> >
> > To the original poster - Olympus supplied me with a pack of 4 MD socket
> > caps free of charge after I lost one from my OM-2 (that didn't show
> > light-leaking signs either, but I didn't test it as well as the OM-1).
> > It might be worth giving them a call to see if they will still offer
> > this sort of service.
> >
> > --
> > Kennedy
> > Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
> > A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.
> > Python Philosophers         (replace 'nospam' with 'kennedym' when replying)
> >
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