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Subject: [OM] Good exoerience with OLY-Austria
From: Manfred STELLER <steller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 21:26:23 +0200
Thanks to everybody, who supported me to get a user manual for the OM-20.
OLY-Europe recommended to contact the Austrian representative. To my
surprise, I got it within two days without paying anything. A great service!

I am owning now an OM20, OM2SP and OM4. The OM2Sp was my favorite.
Unfortunately I damaged it seriously.(Crossing an iced brook in the alps
I lost the balance and the camera in the backbag looked rather poor.) 

The mounting flange was twisted by 0.5mm and the top cover damaged near the
winder. OLY told me they could not repair the camera since the body is twisted 
by
0.08 mm what is slightly more than the thickness of the film. I managed to 
repair 
the flange as well as the top-cover. I didn't have any manual, don't ask me how 
often
I placed and removed certain screws until everything was in accordance.

Following that accident, I used the camera about six years without any problem. 
In the last half year I recognised, there are sometimes black stripes on one 
side 
of the print. Checking the shutter I found a problem with exposure times
shorter than 1/250'. Obviously the opening of the first part is too slow and 
the moving slit opens not at the left edge but few milimeters later.

Anybody an experience, recommendation what I could do ? Should I give it up ?


Best regards  Manfred

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Manfred STELLER

Space Research Institute
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Inffeldgasse 12
A-8010   Graz
AUSTRIA

Phone: ++43 - 316 - 46 36 96 -21
Fax:     ++43 - 316 - 46 36 97
e-mail: manfred.steller@xxxxxxxxxx
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