You're right. This is probably the infamous dirty ISO/exposure comp dial
problem, I think. You may be able to promote a fix by twisting the dial back
and forth about 30 times to clean up the contacts. If it is persistent, send
it to John H. or your local equivalent technical person for CLA.
As for your bad luck with bodies, maybe you're a magnetic personality. My
wife's aunt can't wear a mechanical wrist watch for any amount of time before
it stops. Magnetic interference, she claims. I guess people believe in
goofier things.
Joel Wilcox
Iowa City, Iowa USA
>===== Original Message From Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3@xxxxxxxxxxx> =====
>I'm having an annoying problem with my OM2S, and am curious if anyone else
>has had this too. I think it might be dirty contacts in the ISO dial.
>When the camera is on auto, much of the time it beeps and indicates "OVER",
>even though I have the aperture set where it couldn't possibly be too large
>an f/stop. If I push on the ISO/Comp dial and turn it back and forth to
>the extremes a few times, the camera gets normal and the readout gives the
>correct reading (which is about three stops different than the erroneous
>warning). I'm wondering if some sort of TV tuner cleaner could be sprayed
>(gently!) into the ISO dial.
>Anybody run into this? It drives me crazy.
>
>I'm also wondering if my OM2n has a similar problem with the resistor(?)
>that moves with the f/stop ring. At intermediate settings the meter needle
>goes crazy and jumps around erratically. Above and below that range, it
>settles down and moves normally.
>
>Any feedback would be appreciated. I seem to have bad luck with bodies; my
>favorite, the OM4, now has a dead circuit, but then I bought it used and it
>always was a little goofy.
>
>Alan Magayne-Roshak
>
>
>
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