I've found that in many of the oldest OM-1s (which have a one piece plastic
frame encompassing the eyepiece glass, cds cells, meter circuit and meter)
the plastic frame is starting to crack and fall apart on its own, simply
from old age.
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dirk Wright" <wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] M-1 on eBay
| >No VR's -- only fixed resistors ! ;^) And yes, they all had all four
| >resistors in the meter. They also had a mechanism that would deflect
| >the meter needle if you set the shutter speed on "B" -- later OM-1's
| >dropped this feature.
| >
| >
|
| Dang it Clint! Now I gotta have one.....
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| Be Seeing You.
| Dirk Wright
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