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Re: [OM] OM-10 fix up tips

Subject: Re: [OM] OM-10 fix up tips
From: John Hermanson <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 20:31:22 -0500
I suggested the same thing maybe a year ago.  It works, but, ooh, you don't know
where it's been....and so on.

John

Frank van Lindert wrote:

> On Tue, 03 Nov 1998 13:16:58 -0500, John Hermanson <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >Olympus switched to plastic 3 screw bottom  covers early in production. Later
> >came Type II OM-10s (above serial number 2,000,000) which has a modular metal
> >shafted shutter mechanism. The curtain shafts in the original 10 are some 
> >kinda
> >high tech plastic.  This is one reason the 10 is made so the motor drive will
> >not function on it.  Doing so would melt the shutter shafts (we tried it).
> >These improvements were all put into the OM-G, though the OM-10 was not
> >discontinued when the G came out.
> >
> >John
> >
> One more tip, unasked but maybe welcome...
>
> I used to find it difficult to see if a camera or lens part was made
> out of plastic or metal. I found a way, by pure coincidence: you can
> easily feel rather than look what it is with... your lips.
>
> Metal feels cool or cold and plastic feels much warmer.
> Try the OM-10 (this is what reminded me of it) and slowly shift your
> lip from the main bottom plate to the battery cover - and you will
> understand what I mean.
>
> With 50/1.8 lenses you could find out even in complete darkness
> whether you had the old model (SC?) or the newer (MC?) by just
> pressing your lips to the aperture ring....
>
> Now that I come to think of it - I guess it would be wise to have the
> testing room either in darkness or very private - maybe people would
> start thinking strange things when they watch you kissing a Zuiko...
> And what will happen when you have to explain that this is your way to
> tell if a lens is multi- or single-coated....
>
> Frank van Lindert
> Utrecht NL.
>
>




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