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Re: [OM] OM10 Mirror lockup

Subject: Re: [OM] OM10 Mirror lockup
From: John Hermanson <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 08:22:34 -0500
I'm sure these are the same people who lock an OM-1 mirror up and then
pull it down to getitbackintaplace. The person who touched up the first
curtain of his OM-2 with a black magic marker cus it had specks awn it.
The OM-2 mirror goes all the way up during shutter lock, so the then
customer opens the camera back and pulls ona the curtain so hard it rips
out of the bar.....
Customer education is, in some cases, an endless process.

John
Camtech

Gary Schloss wrote:

> John Hermanson wrote:
>
> >It is hardly a cheap design. It facilitates self timer, and prevents
> >the shutter from working with wrong, weak, dead or no batteries.
>
> While this may have been a sound engineering approach, IMHO this half
> way up feature was far from foolproof, and must have caused endless
> grief to OLY service depts. I've heard numerous "horror stories" of
> lay OM users who'd forced their half-up mirrors up or down thereby
> damaging their OM-10/G/F.
>
> A cardinal sin of most engineers I know is that they invariably
> overestimate the intelligence of an end-user. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> /Gary Schloss.
> Studio City, CA
> schloss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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