Dear Frank,
during the 70's I was a serious NIKON F2 user.
Having difficulty in my right eye, I was forced to use my left which is 6/6
vision.
With this shooting stance, very often I used to hurt my right eye. TILL I
switched to OLYMPUS OM2 and onto the 4T.
This NIKON / OM2000 switch mode is BAD ergonomics and should be out right banned
as it pre-defines the camera user to be 'right eye person'.
OLYMPUS should rethink on this switch mode issue.
Sunil Manga.
Tomoko Yamamoto wrote:
> Frank van Lindert, the left-eye shooter, wrote:
> >Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 20:03:09 GMT
>
> >I have recently acquired a like new OM-2000.
>
> >I have played with it, and although it doesn't have the real
> >OM-feeling the camera is rather nice indeed.
> >But one thing is most irritating. The shutter (and the metering
> >device) are blocked if the winder (after winding to the next frame) is
> >pushed back completely along the body, as normally done with all other
> >OM-cameras.
> >After winding you will have to keep the winding lever in a 30-40
> >degree angle to the camera back, sticking precisely into my right eye
> >(I use my left eye for focusing) or hooking itself behind my glasses.
> >I wonder if it is possible to modify the shutter - e.g. by removing
> >the parts which cause the blocking when the winding lever is sitting
> >flat against the back of the camera body.
> Hmm, you were not paying attention when I was talking about the same problem
> back in December or January.
>
> There are two possible solutions to the problem. The cable release can
> defeat the shutter lock. If you can pick up a very short cable release to
> put on top of a shutter release button, you can open the shutter without
> moving the film advance lever. I used this approach for a while, but my
> home-made device tends to come apart and get lost. Since I am a right-eye
> shooter, I have found out that as long as I cannot see the lever sticking
> out, it does not bother me. Since I have installed a dioptric correction
> lens with an eye cup, I have been using the 2000 without my home-made short
> shutter release. The right-eye shooter without a need for dioptric
> correction can fit an eye cup on the viewfinder to have the same effect.
>
> The second solution is to cut off the tab which goes under the
> shutter-release button. Since I bought my OM2000 new, I have not tried that
> approach. I thought I would do it after the warranty has expired. I have
> no idea whether the shutter release lock mechanism or its tampering will
> have any bearing on the operation of the multi-exposure lever.
>
> Tomoko Yamamoto
> Photographer, Composer, Soprano
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