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Re: [OM] XA question - long post

Subject: Re: [OM] XA question - long post
From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 13:21:45 -0400
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John
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----- Original Message -----
From: Keith (R.K.) Berry <keith_r.k.berry@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] XA question - long post


>
> From: John Hermanson
> Subject: Re: [OM] XA question - long post
>
>
> >Oil on the shutter blades also might make the shutter not open at all or
> jam
> >in the open position.  There are 2 cds cells in the XA, 1 for the meter
> >reading , the other for auto exposure.  When the auto cds cell goes bad,
> >exposure would consistently be in the 8-10 second range.
> >A cracked ceramic board would jam the camera in the self timer mode.
> >
> >John
>
>
> Thanks John. My XA's symptoms don't fit any of these. Wherever I set the
asa
> selector the needle responds as I'd expect, but the shutter is
consistently
> about 4 stops slow - an indicated 1/500 looks and sounds like 1/30, an
> indicated 1/8th gives me 2 seconds, and is linear in between. The Flash
> speed looks and sounds like 1/60th as it should. No amount of 'exercising'
> the shutter has shortened this 4 stop discrepancy.
>
> It had been lying on its back, batteries out, in its box for around five
> years - could it have lost some vital magnetism?
>
> Regards,
> Keith (Birmingham UK)
> keith_r.k.berry@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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