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Re: [OM] New Bloke

Subject: Re: [OM] New Bloke
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 16:22:54 -0700
At 09:13 AM 3/2/2001 +1100, John Wheeler wrote:
>Greetings from the Wide Brown Land.

Greetings from The Great White North.  ;-)

[snip]

>The only problem seems to be that the diaphram gets sticky on the smaller 
>apertures and fails to return to wide-open position. I've removed the back 
>plate from the lens and had a little play to see if it could be freed but 
>not wanting to upset focus etc didn't wish to proceed further.
>
>Is this a common problem? Is there anything I can do to fix it?

John:

Sounds like the diaphragm blades have a small amount of oil or other skunge on 
'em.  Since 50/1.8's are so cheap, I wouldn't bother getting 'em cleaned -- 
just go and buy a good used one off of eBay or somesuch place.

Garth


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