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Re: [OM] Olympus Believe It or Not

Subject: Re: [OM] Olympus Believe It or Not
From: Jim Couch <spknsprkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 11:00:58 -0800
On the Olympus Bellows there is s stop down lever that would accomplish the same
thing without managling a perfectly good lens. The lever is for use whn you 
don't
use the dual cable release. I suppose that this feature might not be available 
on
some after market bellows set though.

Steve Goss wrote:

> Maybe he was using on a bellows, and did not have the nifty Olympus dual
> shutter release.
>
> Franklin Berryman wrote:
> >
> > I need a little help solving a mystery.  I sold my 35mm f2.8 SC Zuiko and
> > replaced it with a MC version off eBAY.  Compulsive?  Anyway, the lens
> > arrived today.  It was in good shape EXCEPT a former owner had drilled a
> > tiny hole in the back of the mount right behind the depth of field preview
> > button, inserted a tiny screw, held the button down and tightened it so that
> > the button was permanently depressed and the iris would open up and close
> > down as you turned the aperture ring - in essence making it a preset lens.
> > Why in the world would anyone do that?
>
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