Sorry Lex,
He said that he had a 4T, so it is different from your OM-1 in that
way also. His described proceedure did follow the manual, the question
is "Did he actually follow the proceedure?"
Rand E.
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Lex Jenkins wrote:
>
> John, if I correctly understand what you've described, the problem is that
> you pressed the shutter release button after setting the self-timer.
> Olympus SLRs are among the very few (only?) in which the self-timer has its
> own release mechanism (a tiny tab concealed beneath the self-timer lever on
> my OM-1). With most SLRs you set the self-timer, then press the shutter
> release button to begin the countdown. If you do this with the OMs the
> shutter will fire immediately. Every once in a while I forget this too,
> since I switch between OMs and Canons.
> ===
> Lex
> ===
>
> >From: John Hudson <xyyc@xxxxxxxx>
> >Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 17:52:32 -0800
> >
> >...set the 12 second shutter delay prefire lever and pressed the shutter
> >release thinking that I time to get into the picture before the shutter
> >released...
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