Stuart;
What a great haul. Congrats.
Did u do anything else to the 2S than batteries? Reason I ask is, I
have a beauty I got for $50 too, but new batteries don't do the trick. A
press of the shutter locks the mirror up tight.
george
Stuart Goggin wrote:
>
> I went to the camberwell show too, I was wearing a rather bright yellow
> jacket.
>
> Here's what I got.
>
> Six OM Body caps @ $2 each
> Set of three Hansa OM extension tubes @$40
> OM 10 Black Quartz Broken $5 ( Now fixed )
> OM 2sp black (MINT) Flat Battery $50 ( Now working )
> OM Control Pack 2 and 2 Chargers $30
> OM A310 Flash + TTL cord $30
>
>
> I was most pleased with the OM2sp, I really bought it for parts, the seller
> was asking $100AUD. The camera had locked up and the battery test was not
> working. I managed to bargain him down to $50. Bought some batteries,
> and its now working. Measured the standby battery current and it is within
> the normal range. . I really like the spot meter, it appears to be a MUCH
> tighter spot than my OM 2000.
>
> The OM10 black is very nice looking camera, but someone had mounted an
> incorrect lense and ripped the aperature sense tab out. The cable to the
> databack was also broken. three hours on sunday had the tab replaced and
> the ribbon cable replaced. The only remaining problem is with the meter
> display, it is reading a bit off. The camera does however expose
> correctly. I'll have to wait until I get some service manuals for it..
>
> Stuart Goggin
>
>
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>
> Subject: [OM] Camberweel
> Date: 11 Oct 98 20:47:42
> From: "Terry and Tracey" <foxcroft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>
> I went to the Camberwell camera show today. Met up with Stephen Cheung and
> earlier Richard Wong.
>
> Boy, my fist show. What a lot of gear! some cheap, some amazingly expensive.
> Saw a lot of trip 35s. Bought one for the kids for $15 (bag of gravel in US
> $). Saw OM-1 for $250 to 350 (bit steep). OM-2n with the 310 flash and hot
> shoe 4 (total combo only!). Saw plenty of 310 flashes. I've never seen them
> before.
>
> Lots of older cameras. Pen EEs etc. Plenty of Leica etc. Not much new stuff.
> 4T for $500. It sold.
>
> What wasn't there. 200mm f5, 500mm f8 (Paul T, you are teasing me I know!),
> 65-116 tube (bought one from Richard earlier), 3Ti. Or any Oly lensese
> (extra e intentional). Well, a couple of 35-70 f4 zooms, but I wasn't
> interested in these anyway.
>
> I bought a bellows for $10, M42 mount. I'll bucther it for a focussing rail.
> In hind sight I should have bought the Novoflex bellows/slide copier for $50
> (could have got it for $30, I'm sure) with Leica mounts.
>
> Also got two adapters for PC flash socket to flash bulbs for $1.50 each. Now
> to find those FP bulbs.
>
> Foxy
>
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