Does anyone have any cold weather experience with the OM-4?
It was about 15 degrees today, without the wind, and I was using my OM-4 on
a tripod today to do some lens evaluations. (I went thought about 10
Zuiko primes, 2 Tamron zooms, and 3 Leica-M primes)
After about 20 minutes, the camera just froze up. I had run through one
roll, and had taken 5 exposures on the second roll. When I tripped the
shutter, the camera locked the mirror up, did not release the first shutter
curtain (so you could see the black/white pattern), and proceeded to emit
a squeal similar to the battery check sound, but more garbled. I could get
it to stop by moving the SS dial to the red 1/60 speed. The mirror would
then come down.
I switched to my OM-4T for the remainder of the roll, but it only took a
few minutes, so I didn't get to evaluate if the OM-4T would react the same.
Has anyone else encountered this problem? Remember, the camera was exposed
to the cold on a tripod head, so it wasn't around my neck to keep it warm.
Skip
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Skip Williams
Westfield, NJ
skipwilliams@xxxxxxxxx
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