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Subject: Re: [OM] OM2 technical question...
From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 08:57:22 -0400
The resistors that control manual speeds are probably dirty.

John  Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Scales <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <olympus-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 6:23 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] OM2 technical question...


| Marc,
|
| Are you testing this with film in the camera? If not, that's probably the
| only problem. Since it reads off the film, it expects film reflectivity,
so
| the black of the film back gives the wrong exposures.  Try it with film
and
| I'll bet it works.
|
| Tom
|
| > I'm hoping the collective experience and wisdom of the list will help me
| > with my OM2 problem.
| >
| > I purchased a beautiful OM2 with chrome finish recently. The problem I
| > am having is that in Manual mode, with shutter speeds of 1/4 or below,
| > the shutter stays open for a very long time, from 2-5 seconds, it
| > varies. If I put it in Auto mode and take a shot such that the shutter
| > speed required is 1/4 or slower, it works fine. I can live with the
| > problem as I generally shoot the OM2 in auto mode anyway, and I very
| > rarely use manual shutter speeds below 1/30 on any of my cameras, but I
| > am curious if this is easily fixed or if anybody else has encountered
| > this problem themselves.
| >
| > Thanks for any comments, advice or anecdotes,
| > - marc
| >
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