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Re: [OM] Olympus 35 RC lens distortion?

Subject: Re: [OM] Olympus 35 RC lens distortion?
From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 08:39:48 -0400
The RC self timer lever is plastic (atleast the replacement part is).  What
might of happened is that when the ST lever fell off, they re-installed it
90 degrees out of position.  Lever could go on in any of 4 positions. I
think if they tried to twist the lever hard enough it'd just break.

John  Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: Lex Jenkins <lexjenkins@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 5:11 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Olympus 35 RC lens distortion?


| For some reason most of the very few 35RC's I've seen have had the
| self-timer lever torqued the wrong way so that the lever points straight
up,
| sticking out above the top of the camera.  Don't know why people do what
| they do.
|
| Maybe I should use that as a dickering point on the next one since I
seldom
| use self-timers on small cameras anyway.
|
| Makes me think most other camera makers got it right by using those tiny
| nibs to activate the lens-mounted self-timers.  Pretty hard to mangle one
of
| those.
| -----------
| Lex Jenkins
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Musta been a UFO.  It wuz flyin' an' I dunno whut it wuz. - A "farmer"
|


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